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Loxanthocereus acanthurus; photograph Aaron Fulkerson from San Diego, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAAaron Fulkerson from San Diego, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Loxanthocereus acanthurus (Vaupel) Backeb.

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

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Loxanthocereus acanthurus, photograph Aaron Fulkerson from San Diego, CA, US; derivative work: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLoxanthocereus acanthurus, photograph NasserHalaweh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLoxanthocereus acanthurus, photograph Jonathan Chancasana, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLoxanthocereus acanthurus, photograph Monics Paredes, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLoxanthocereus acanthurus, photograph Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsLoxanthocereus acanthurus, photograph Monics Paredes, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Loxanthocereus acanthurus is a species of Loxanthocereus found in Peru.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Loxanthocereus acanthurus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.

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 family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”. 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. 204 of the 206 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.

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: 7281514 (Borzicactus acanthurus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose, 214 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

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).
Map marker-12.008, -76.668 · in the densest population, 202 records (98% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 206 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 75 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 15 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 204 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 7281514 (Borzicactus acanthurus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose): Kew's file holds it as Borzicactus acanthurus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose (synonym under Loxanthocereus acanthurus (Vaupel) Backeb.); 214 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 206 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Aaron Fulkerson from San Diego, CA, US; derivative work: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; NasserHalaweh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Jonathan Chancasana, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Monics Paredes, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Círculo de Investigación en Taxonomía, Florística y Ecología Vegetal, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Loxanthocereus 2 in the reference

Loxanthocereus sextonianus Loxanthocereus sextonianus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State…Loxanthocereus sulcifer Loxanthocereus sulcifer Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud Aronson

Names & registers

Also known as Cereus acanthurus; Borzicactus acanthurus; Cleistocactus acanthurus; Echinopsis acanthura; Binghamia acanthura. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(Vaupel) Backeb.
Native to
Peru
Wild records
206 in range · 75 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 Loxanthocereus acanthurus (Vaupel) Backeb. (plant_name_id 2337296), 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; 214 records of GBIF's key 7281514, Borzicactus acanthurus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose (Kew's file holds it as Borzicactus acanthurus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose (synonym under Loxanthocereus acanthurus (Vaupel) Backeb.)): the GBIF download
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 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 144075-2, POWO 144075-2
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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