Stenocereus

Accepted species 24 Documented here 17 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Stenocereus gummosus (Engelm.) A.C.Gibson & K.E.Horak 249 documented
Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxb. 166 documented
Stenocereus queretaroensis (F.A.C.Weber) Buxb. 74 documented
Stenocereus griseus (Haw.) Buxb. 69 documented
Stenocereus pruinosus (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Buxb. 38 documented
Stenocereus eruca (K.Brandegee) A.C.Gibson & K.E.Horak 34 documented
Stenocereus heptagonus (L.) Mottram 34 documented
Stenocereus beneckei (Ehrenb.) A.Berger & Buxb. 28 documented
Stenocereus martinezii (J.G.Ortega) Buxb. 25 documented
Stenocereus alamosensis (J.M.Coult.) A.C.Gibson & K.E.Horak 24 documented
Stenocereus huastecorum Alvarado-Sizzo, Arreola-Nava & Terrazas 23 documented
Stenocereus standleyi (J.G.Ortega) Buxb. 23 documented
Stenocereus treleasei (Rose) Backeb. 21 documented
Stenocereus stellatus (Pfeiff.) Riccob. 18 documented
Stenocereus kerberi (K.Schum.) A.C.Gibson & K.E.Horak 10 documented
Stenocereus laevigatus (Salm-Dyck) Buxb. 5 documented
Stenocereus montanus (Britton & Rose) Buxb. 4 documented
Stenocereus fricii Sánchez-Mej. 1 below the evidence gate
Stenocereus chacalapensis (Bravo & T.MacDoug.) Buxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocereus chrysocarpus Sánchez-Mej. 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocereus humilis (Britton & Rose) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocereus quevedonis (J.G.Ortega) Buxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocereus yunckeri (Standl.) P.V.Heath 0 below the evidence gate
Stenocereus zopilotensis Arreola-Nava & Terrazas 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.