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Epiphyllum grandilobum (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose

Cactaceae · Costa Rica, Nicaragua +1 · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

No habitat climate
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Summary

Epiphyllum grandilobum is an epiphytic species of cactus native to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama. This species occurs in elevations of 20 to 1100 m in continuously declining forest habitats, which are threatened by housing and urban areas, tourism and recreational areas, in addition to annual and perennial non-timber crops. The populations are severely fragmented. International trade is restricted to the terms of CITES appendix II, in order to prevent poaching of wild populations. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Epiphyllum grandilobum", 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

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Epiphyllum in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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 Epiphyllum in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”. 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

No habitat climate can be derived: 42 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 42 of the 42 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; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCosta Rica, Nicaragua, Panama · 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).
Map marker8.683, -83.533 · in the densest population, 30 records (71% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 42 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 42 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 42 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Epiphyllum 8 in the reference

Epiphyllum cartagense Cactaceae Epiphyllum chrysocardium Epiphyllum chrysocardium Fern leaf orchid cactus Photo: CC BY-SA, sadambioEpiphyllum 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 Epiphyllum gigas; Phyllocactus grandilobus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose
Native to
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
Wild records
42 in range · 42 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 2026-10-2242 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 nothing to reportasked 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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