Stenocactus crispatus

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Stenocactus crispatus, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales — fig. a Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-13 / obs. 100196382

Stenocactus crispatus, photographed by Jalil R. — fig. b Jalil R., CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 77054910

Stenocactus crispatus, photographed by David Valdez — fig. c David Valdez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13465225

Stenocactus crispatus, photographed by Carlos Martorell — fig. d Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9656150

Stenocactus crispatus, photographed by Alejandro Gómez Maya — fig. h Alejandro Gómez Maya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22121365

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Stenocactus crispatus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Mexico Central	MXC	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf	MXG
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Southwest	MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 48 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Brittonrosea crispata (DC.) Speg.
Brittonrosea grandicornis (Lem.) Speg.
Cactus crispatus Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
Echinocactus acifer Hopffer ex C.F.Först.
Echinocactus acroacanthus Stieber
Echinocactus allardtianus A.Dietr.
Echinocactus anfractuosus var. ensiferus (Lem.) Salm-Dyck
Echinocactus anfractuosus var. spinosior Monv. ex Lem.
Echinocactus arrectus Otto ex C.F.Först.
Echinocactus arrigens var. atropurpureus Salm-Dyck
Echinocactus arrigens var. xiphacanthus (Miq.) Schelle
Echinocactus crispatus DC.
Echinocactus crispatus var. horridus DC.
Echinocactus dietrichii Heynh.
Echinocactus ensifer Lem.
Echinocactus ensifer var. pallidus C.F.Först.
Echinocactus ensiferus Lem.
Echinocactus grandicornis Lem.
Echinocactus grandicornis var. fulvispinus Salm-Dyck
Echinocactus lamellosus var. fulvescens Salm-Dyck
Echinocactus sphaerocephalus Muehlenpf.
Echinocactus stenogonus K.Schum.
Echinocactus undulatus A.Dietr.
Echinocactus xiphacanthus Miq.

and 24 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.