Copiapoa armata (F.Ritter) Helmut Walter & Larridon
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About the genus · Copiapoa
Copiapoa is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, from the dry coastal deserts, particularly the Atacama Desert, of northern Chile.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Copiapoa", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Copiapoa 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 genus Copiapoa 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.
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Other Copiapoa 38 in the reference
Copiapoa ahremephiana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicolás Villaseca Merino
Copiapoa algarrobensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Christer T Johansson
Copiapoa angustiflora Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Copiapoa aphanes Cactaceae Photo: CC0, Benjamín Jacques
Copiapoa atacamensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, CactiLegacy
Copiapoa australis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf
Copiapoa calderana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, S Sebastián Salazar
Copiapoa cinerascens Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
Copiapoa cinerea Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, F. Bemmerlein-Lux
Copiapoa coquimbana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Elías Acosta Quiroz Copiapoa corralensis Cactaceae 
Copiapoa decorticans Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau all 39 ›Names & registers
Also known as Copiapoa coquimbana var. armata. (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 Copiapoa armata (F.Ritter) Helmut Walter & Larridon (plant_name_id 3009001), 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 askedgbif.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 askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate 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 themwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77154105-1, POWO 77154105-1wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.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 nothing to reportasked 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.