Stenocactus

Accepted species 22 Documented here 8 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Stenocactus multicostatus (Hildm. ex K.Schum.) A.Berger 76 documented
Stenocactus pentacanthus (Lem.) A.Berger 42 documented
Stenocactus phyllacanthus (Mart) A.Berger 38 documented
Stenocactus coptonogonus A.Berger 14 documented
Stenocactus crispatus (DC.) A.Berger 11 documented
Stenocactus arrigens (Link ex A.Dietr.) A.Berger 9 documented
Stenocactus dichroacanthus (Mart. ex Pfeiff.) A.Berger ex Backeb. & F.M.Knuth 9 documented
Stenocactus lamellosus (A.Dietr.) A.Berger 5 documented
Stenocactus wippermannii (Muehlenpf.) A.Berger 2 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus tetraxiphus (Otto ex K.Schum.) A.Berger 1 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus × irregularis Gonz.-Zam., D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus anfractuosus (Mart. ex Pfeiff.) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus boedekerianus A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus heteracanthus (Muehlenpf.) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus jarmilae Halda & Horáček 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus kaplanii Halda, Kupčák & Sladk. 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus lancifer (A.Dietr.) A.Berger ex Backeb. & F.M.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus magnificus Halda & Horáček 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus obvallatus (DC.) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus ochoterenianus Tiegel 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus sulphureus (A.Dietr.) Bravo 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocactus vaupelianus (Werderm.) F.M.Knuth 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.