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Cyphostemma caerulans unknown, CC BY, via GBIF · observed growing wild

Cyphostemma caerulans Desc.

Vitaceae

No habitat climate 4 photographs Cactus or succulent
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About the genus · Cyphostemma

Cyphostemma is a flowering plant genus in the family Vitaceae, with around 250 species distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics. These species are caudiciform and used to belong to the genus Cissus. The genus name comes from Greek kyphos, meaning hump, and stemma, meaning garland.

Text from Wikipedia, “Cyphostemma”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Vitaceae
Described by
Desc.
Native to
Madagascar
Wild records
4 in range· 3 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Cyphostemma, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

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.
NativeMadagascar
Kew's description“seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-12.942, 49.121 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Cyphostemma caerulansCyphostemma caerulansCyphostemma caerulans

Photographs: MBV, CC BY, via GBIF (2); unknown, CC BY, via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Cyphostemma caerulans, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Other Cyphostemma 227 in the reference

Cyphostemma abercornense Vitaceae Cyphostemma adamii Vitaceae Cyphostemma adenanthum Vitaceae Cyphostemma adenocarpum Vitaceae Cyphostemma adenocaule Vitaceae Cyphostemma adenopodum Vitaceae Cyphostemma alnifolium Vitaceae Cyphostemma amplexicaule Vitaceae Cyphostemma anatomica Hairy Grape Cyphostemma ankaranense Vitaceae
Cyphostemma ankirihitrense Vitaceae Cyphostemma bainesii African Tree Grape all 228 ›

History & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist
Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped
inat.taxon not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive)
inat.photos.wild nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: api.gbif.org not asked: offline re-derivation
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.