Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter
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12 photographs › At a glance
- Jan, under 5 mm of rain
- Feb
- Mar
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- May
- Jun
- Jul, shaded
- Aug, shaded
- Sep, shaded
- Oct
- Nov, under 5 mm of rain
- Dec
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (380 mm of 528 mm) falls in January to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 5.6 °C against a yearly mean of 4.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: July to September.
Rain
528 mm in the median year at the habitat, 380 mm of it January to March. Wettest month January at 148 mm, driest months (2 at 4 mm); 2 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 267 mm to 864 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 542 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 528 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 35 to 55 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 33, the highest 90th-percentile month 59).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -4.5 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range -6.5 °C to -1.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 13.1 °C in November (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is -4.5 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, July, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 36 to 63% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
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.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
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
Habitat months, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 9 °C in Jun and Jul to 13 °C in Oct, Nov and Dec; mean nightly low from -5 °C in Jul to 1 °C in Jan and Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 528 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 131 habitat cells. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 11 / 9–15 | 11 / 9–15 | 11 / 9–15 | 11 / 9–15 | 10 / 8–13 | 9 / 6–12 | 9 / 6–12 | 10 / 8–14 | 11 / 9–15 | 13 / 11–17 | 13 / 11–17 | 13 / 10–16 |
| Night °C | 1 / -1–5 | 1 / -1–4 | 0 / -2–3 | -2 / -4–2 | -4 / -5–0 | -4 / -6–-1 | -5 / -7–-1 | -4 / -6–-1 | -3 / -5–0 | -2 / -4–2 | -1 / -3–3 | 0 / -2–4 |
| Rain mm | 148 / 76–243 | 137 / 77–200 | 95 / 38–152 | 16 / 6–49 | 4 / 2–10 | 5 / 2–10 | 4 / 2–6 | 7 / 3–13 | 5 / 3–19 | 13 / 5–28 | 28 / 9–53 | 66 / 31–125 |
| DLI | 46 / 41–51 | 46 / 41–50 | 43 / 40–46 | 42 / 39–44 | 38 / 36–40 | 35 / 33–38 | 37 / 34–39 | 42 / 40–44 | 49 / 47–50 | 54 / 51–56 | 55 / 51–59 | 52 / 47–57 |
| RH % | 63 / 55–67 | 62 / 54–68 | 61 / 52–68 | 52 / 42–63 | 41 / 36–57 | 36 / 33–50 | 36 / 32–48 | 38 / 34–49 | 39 / 35–51 | 42 / 37–52 | 47 / 41–56 | 54 / 46–61 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1064 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum -12.5 °C, 1st-percentile night -7.7 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3950637 (Tephrocactus ignescens (Vaupel) Backeb., 0 records), 3952232 (Maihueniopsis boliviana subsp. ignescens (Vaupel) Faúndez & R.Kiesling, 14 records), 3954042 (Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter, 212 records), 3954200 (Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. ignescens (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt, 2 records), 7284776 (Opuntia ignescens Vaupel, 4 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Allan Harris, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); serni bams, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.
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Cumulopuntia pentlandii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, MMFE
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Cumulopuntia subterranea Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Michael Wolf Names & registers
Also known as Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. ignescens; Cumulopuntia frigida; Cumulopuntia hystrix; Tephrocactus longiarticulatus; Pereskia glomerata and 11 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter (plant_name_id 2747395), 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22this 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; 0 records of GBIF's key 3950637, Tephrocactus ignescens (Vaupel) Backeb. (Kew's file holds it as Tephrocactus ignescens (Vaupel) Backeb. (synonym under Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter)): GBIF occurrence search API; 14 records of GBIF's key 3952232, Maihueniopsis boliviana subsp. ignescens (Vaupel) Faúndez & R.Kiesling (Kew's file holds it as Maihueniopsis boliviana subsp. ignescens (Vaupel) Faúndez & R.Kiesling (synonym under Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter)): the GBIF download; 212 records of GBIF's key 3954042, Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter (Kew's file holds it as Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter (accepted)): the GBIF download; 2 records of GBIF's key 3954200, Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. ignescens (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt (Kew's file holds it as Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. ignescens (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt (synonym under Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter)): the GBIF download; 4 records of GBIF's key 7284776, Opuntia ignescens Vaupel (Kew's file holds it as Opuntia ignescens Vaupel (synonym under Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter)): the GBIF downloadclimate answeredasked 2026-10-22climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -19.00_-69.375, lapse-corrected +1064 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, +1064 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's, so no cold floor is shownwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 908039-1, POWO 908039-1wikipedia 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 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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.