Selenicereus

Accepted species 34 Documented here 13 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 34 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Selenicereus undatus (Haw.) D.R.Hunt 217 documented
Selenicereus spinulosus (DC.) Britton & Rose 70 documented
Selenicereus grandiflorus (L.) Britton & Rose 68 documented
Selenicereus setaceus (Salm-Dyck ex DC.) Werderm. 31 documented
Selenicereus ocamponis (Salm-Dyck) D.R.Hunt 26 documented
Selenicereus costaricensis (F.A.C.Weber) S.Arias & N.Korotkova ex Hammel 25 documented
Selenicereus pteranthus (Link ex A.Dietr.) Britton & Rose 23 documented
Selenicereus triangularis (L.) D.R.Hunt 23 documented
Selenicereus vagans (K.Brandegee) Britton & Rose 12 documented
Selenicereus monacanthus (Lem.) D.R.Hunt 9 documented
Selenicereus murrillii Britton & Rose 5 documented
Selenicereus anthonyanus (Alexander) D.R.Hunt 4 documented
Selenicereus inermis (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose 4 documented
Selenicereus hamatus (Scheidw.) Britton & Rose 2 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus purpusii (Weing.) S.Arias & N.Korotkova ex D.R.Hunt 2 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus nelsonii (Weing.) Britton & Rose 1 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus alliodorus (Gómez-Hin. & H.M.Hern.) S.Arias & N.Korotkova ex D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus atropilosus Kimnach 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus brevispinus (Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus calcaratus (F.A.C.Weber) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus dorschianus Ralf Bauer 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus escuintlensis (Kimnach) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus extensus (Salm-Dyck ex DC.) Leuenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus glaber (Eichlam) S.Arias & N.Korotkova ex D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus guatemalensis (Eichlam ex Weingart) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus innesii Kimnach 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus megalanthus (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus minutiflorus (Britton & Rose) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus radicans (DC.) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus stenopterus (F.A.C.Weber) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus tonduzii (F.A.C.Weber) S.Arias & N.Korotkova ex D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus tricae D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus trigonus (Haw.) S.Arias & N.Korotkova 0 below the evidence gate
Selenicereus validus S.Arias & U.Guzmán 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.