Austrocylindropuntia lagopus (K.Schum.) I.Crook, J.Arnold & M.Lowry
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Austrocylindropuntia is a genus of cacti with eight recognized species as of December 2025, which were once included in the genus Opuntia. All are native to South America, although some have been introduced elsewhere.
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Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 7486428 (Punotia lagopus (K.Schum.) D.R.Hunt, 32 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: Carlos Cutipa González, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; r Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Kalebzhan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Other Austrocylindropuntia 6 in the reference
Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica Cane cactus Photo: CC BY, Jared Shorma
Austrocylindropuntia floccosa Waraqu Photo: CC BY-SA, Carlo Brescia
Austrocylindropuntia pachypus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Jean Capcha Ramos
Austrocylindropuntia shaferi Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrés Romero Bravo
Austrocylindropuntia subulata Eve's Pin Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinha
Austrocylindropuntia vestita Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Ariadna Tripaldi Names & registers
Also known as Opuntia lagopus; Tephrocactus malyanus; Tephrocactus lagopus; Tephrocactus lagopus var. aureus; Tephrocactus lagopus var. leucolagopus and 9 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Austrocylindropuntia lagopus (K.Schum.) I.Crook, J.Arnold & M.Lowry (plant_name_id 2666669), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 32 records of GBIF's key 7486428, Punotia lagopus (K.Schum.) D.R.Hunt (Kew's file holds it as Punotia lagopus (K.Schum.) D.R.Hunt (synonym under Austrocylindropuntia lagopus (K.Schum.) I.Crook, J.Arnold & M.Lowry)): the GBIF downloadclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelopewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 60432239-2, POWO 60432239-2wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.