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Cochemiea boolii (G.E.Linds.) P.B.Breslin & Majure

Cactaceae · Mexico Northwest · listed by its family as a cactus or succulent

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Cochemiea boolii, photograph (c) Norma Piedra, some rights reserved (CC BY)Cochemiea boolii, photograph Ahmiguel, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCochemiea boolii, photograph Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCochemiea boolii, photograph Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCochemiea boolii, photograph Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCochemiea boolii, photograph Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Summary

Cochemiea boolii is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae with pink-petaled flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cochemiea boolii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cochemiea

Cochemiea is a genus of cactus. The group was previously synonymized with Mammillaria, until molecular phylogenetic studies determined that—when broadly circumscribed—Mammillaria is not monophyletic; thus, Cochemiea has been accepted as a distinct genus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cochemiea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

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

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 12 of the 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Northwest · 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).
Map marker27.95, -111.083 · in the densest population, 13 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 13 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 13 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Norma Piedra, some rights reserved (CC BY); Ahmiguel, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Cochemiea 33 in the reference

Cochemiea albicans Cochemiea albicans Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Bill LevineCochemiea armillata Cochemiea armillata Los Cabos Nipple Cactus Photo: CC BY, Erick Vélez SánchezCochemiea barbata Cochemiea barbata Green-flowered pincushion cactus Photo: CC BY, ElisaCochemiea blossfeldiana Cochemiea blossfeldiana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, MarvalPhotography19Cochemiea capensis Cochemiea capensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez RomeroCochemiea cerralboa Cochemiea cerralboa Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCochemiea conoidea Cochemiea conoidea Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, CK2AZCochemiea dioica Cochemiea dioica Coastal Fish Hook Cactus Photo: CC BY, Sue CarnahanCochemiea estebanensis Cochemiea estebanensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Luis Fernando Valdez OjedaCochemiea fraileana Cochemiea fraileana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez RomeroCochemiea grahamii Cochemiea grahamii Graham's nipple cactus Photo: CC BY, Bruce HartmanCochemiea guelzowiana Cochemiea guelzowiana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmanin all 34 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Bartschella boolii; Chilita boolii; Mammillaria boolii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(G.E.Linds.) P.B.Breslin & Majure
Native to
Mexico Northwest
Wild records
13 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
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. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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