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Cleistocactus colademononis (Diers & Krahn) Mottram

Cactaceae · Bolivia · listed by its genus as a cactus or succulent

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GBIF's records not checked. GBIF'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 asked. So this page has no points on its map, no map marker, no habitat climate, no cultivation sheet and no species of nearest climate; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that none exist. How.

Cleistocactus colademononis, photograph Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCleistocactus colademononis, photograph Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCleistocactus colademononis, photograph Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCleistocactus colademononis, photograph Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCleistocactus colademononis, photograph Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCleistocactus colademononis, photograph Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Cleistocactus colademononis is a succulent of the family Cactaceae. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It is native to Bolivia. It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the golden rat-tail cactus Cleistocactus winteri, Cleistocactus winteri subsp. colademono.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cleistocactus colademononis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Cleistocactus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub or lithophyte”.

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.
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 genus Cleistocactus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub or lithophyte”. 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

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeBolivia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“succulent subshrub or lithophyte” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Cleistocactus 12 in the reference

Cleistocactus baumannii Cleistocactus baumannii Firecracker cactus Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonCleistocactus brookeae Cleistocactus brookeae Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Paul KaluschkeCleistocactus buchtienii Cleistocactus buchtienii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsCleistocactus candelilla Cleistocactus candelilla Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCleistocactus hyalacanthus Cleistocactus hyalacanthus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, William StephensCleistocactus luribayensis Cleistocactus luribayensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Alejandro Bruno Miranda-CalleCleistocactus morawetzianus Cleistocactus morawetzianus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, David F. BelmonteCleistocactus parviflorus Cleistocactus parviflorus Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCleistocactus ritteri Cleistocactus ritteri Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Diego DelsoCleistocactus samaipatanus Cleistocactus samaipatanus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsCleistocactus smaragdiflorus Cleistocactus smaragdiflorus Firecracker Cactus Photo: CC BY, Agustín ZarcoCleistocactus tominensis Cleistocactus tominensis Cactaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot

Names & registers

Also known as Bolivicereus colademononis; Winterocereus colademononis; Hildewintera colademononis; Borzicactus colademononis; Cleistocactus winteri subsp. colademono and 1 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(Diers & Krahn) Mottram
Native to
Bolivia
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Cleistocactus colademononis (Diers & Krahn) Mottram (plant_name_id 2603991), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.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 asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.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 asked
GBIF common names gbif.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 asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences 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 asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate 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 asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77077298-1, POWO 77077298-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.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 asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every 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.

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