Stenocereus stellatus(Pfeiff.) Riccob.

WFO wfo-0001289484 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria
fig. a Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-09-19 / obs. 166736758
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by kkacheltje
fig. b kkacheltje, CC0 1.0 / obs. 8650894
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. c Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 81805338
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria
fig. d Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166736767
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria
fig. e Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166919650
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Tereka Lasso
fig. f Tereka Lasso, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 4206293
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria
fig. g Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166919677
Stenocereus stellatus, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. h Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10568048

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Stenocereus stellatus is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest Mexico CentralMexico Southwest
Native distribution of Stenocereus stellatus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
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 9 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.

  • Cereus dyckii Mart. ex Pfeiff.
  • Cereus joconostle F.A.C.Weber
  • Cereus stellatus Pfeiff.
  • Cereus tonelianus Lem.
  • Cereus torrellianus Miers
  • Lemaireocereus stellatus (Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose
  • Neolemaireocereus stellatus (Pfeiff.) Backeb.
  • Rathbunia stellata (Pfeiff.) P.V.Heath
  • Stenocereus stellatus var. tenellianus Riccob.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.