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Espostoa senilis; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2011-11-24

Espostoa senilis (F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor

Cactaceae · Peru · listed by its genus as a cactus or succulent

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Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Espostoa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub or tree”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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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 Espostoa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub or tree”. 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: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativePeru · 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 shrub or tree” · “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; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.

Photographs

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Photographs: CactiLegacy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Espostoa 6 in the reference

Espostoa blossfeldiorum Espostoa blossfeldiorum Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Rosario DouglasEspostoa frutescens Espostoa frutescens Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, John G. PhillipsEspostoa hylaea Espostoa hylaea Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. StangEspostoa lanata Espostoa lanata Cotton ball cactus Photo: CC0, author not statedEspostoa melanostele Espostoa melanostele Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Carlo BresciaEspostoa mirabilis Espostoa mirabilis Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Thrixanthocereus senilis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor
Native to
Peru
Wild records
2 in range · 0 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 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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