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Epiphyllum chrysocardium; photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SARaffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Epiphyllum chrysocardium Alexander

Fern leaf orchid cactus

Cactaceae · Mexico Southeast

No habitat climate
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Epiphyllum chrysocardium, photograph sadambio, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsEpiphyllum chrysocardium, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsEpiphyllum chrysocardium, photograph Max Ronnersjö, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEpiphyllum chrysocardium, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEpiphyllum chrysocardium, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEpiphyllum chrysocardium, photograph NasserHalaweh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Summary

Epiphyllum chrysocardium (syn. Selenicereus chrysocardium) is an epiphytic cactus endemic to Mexico. It is sometimes called fern leaf cactus, or golden heart epiphyllum.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Epiphyllum chrysocardium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Epiphyllum

Epiphyllum, ; from Ancient Greek ἐπι- (epi-), meaning "upon", and φύλλον (phúllon), meaning "leaf", is a genus of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae), native to Central America and South America. Common names for these species include climbing cacti, orchid cacti and leaf cacti, though the latter also refers to the genus Pereskia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Epiphyllum", 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.
NativeMexico Southeast · 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“seasonally dry tropical” · 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. 3 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: sadambio, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Max Ronnersjö, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); NasserHalaweh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Epiphyllum 8 in the reference

Epiphyllum cartagense Cactaceae Epiphyllum grandilobum Cactaceae Epiphyllum hookeri Epiphyllum hookeri Nightblooming cactus Photo: CC BY, Ricard Busquets ReverteEpiphyllum laui Epiphyllum laui Cactaceae Photo: CC0, IMtheEyeInTheSkyEpiphyllum oxypetalum Epiphyllum oxypetalum Dutchman's pipe cactus Photo: CC0, author not statedEpiphyllum phyllanthus Epiphyllum phyllanthus Climbing Cactus Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitreEpiphyllum pumilum Epiphyllum pumilum Dutchman's pipe cactus Photo: CC BY, Manuel CamposEpiphyllum thomasianum Epiphyllum thomasianum Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, ashleyrsteel

Names & registers

Also known as Chiapasophyllum chrysocardium; Marniera chrysocardia; Selenicereus chrysocardius. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Alexander
Native to
Mexico Southeast
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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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