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Echidnopsis cereiformis Hook.f.

Apocynaceae · Eritrea, Ethiopia +2

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

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About the genus · Echidnopsis

Echidnopsis is a genus of succulent, cactus-like plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1871. They are native to eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.Accepted species

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 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.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 9574874 (Ceropegia cereiformis (Hook.fil.) Bruyns, 227 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeEritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen · 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” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 201 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 9574874 (Ceropegia cereiformis (Hook.fil.) Bruyns): Kew's file holds it as Ceropegia cereiformis (Hook.f.) Bruyns (synonym under Echidnopsis cereiformis Hook.f.); 227 records, from GBIF's download.

Photographs

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Photographs: Michael Wolf, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons; C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; S Molteno, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Marija Gajić, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Echidnopsis 9 in the reference

Echidnopsis bavazzanoi Apocynaceae Echidnopsis ciliata Apocynaceae Echidnopsis kohaitoensis Apocynaceae Echidnopsis multangula Apocynaceae Echidnopsis repens Apocynaceae Echidnopsis rubrolutea Apocynaceae Echidnopsis thulinii Apocynaceae Echidnopsis uraiqatiana Apocynaceae Echidnopsis yemenensis Apocynaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Apteranthes cylindrica; Apteranthes tessellata; Echidnopsis cereiformis var. brunnea; Stapelia cylindrica; Ceropegia nubica and 6 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
Hook.f.
Native to
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan +1
Wild records
2 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 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Echidnopsis cereiformis Hook.f. (plant_name_id 505095), 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
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this 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; 227 records of GBIF's key 9574874, Ceropegia cereiformis (Hook.fil.) Bruyns (Kew's file holds it as Ceropegia cereiformis (Hook.f.) Bruyns (synonym under Echidnopsis cereiformis Hook.f.)): the GBIF download; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 7 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 97292-1, POWO 97292-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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