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Pilosocereus magnificus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter ex D.R.Hunt

Cactaceae · Brazil Southeast · listed by its family as a cactus or succulent

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Pilosocereus magnificus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter ex D.R.Hunt: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter.

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Summary

Pilosocereus magnificus is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Brazil, within Minas Gerais state. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pilosocereus magnificus", 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 shrub or tree”.

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 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: 24 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 24 of the 24 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.
NativeBrazil 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).
Map marker-16.36, -41.43 · in the densest population, 24 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent shrub or tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 24 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 26 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 24 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 24 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: (c) Rosario Douglas, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); PierreBraun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; WSDaun, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Pilosocereus 20 in the reference

Pilosocereus alensis Pilosocereus alensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Adrian BojorquezPilosocereus armatus Pilosocereus armatus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Alex DoylePilosocereus arrabidae Pilosocereus arrabidae Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPilosocereus azulensis Pilosocereus azulensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Peter A. MansfeldPilosocereus brasiliensis Pilosocereus brasiliensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozPilosocereus catingicola Pilosocereus catingicola Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPilosocereus chrysacanthus Pilosocereus chrysacanthus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezPilosocereus chrysostele Pilosocereus chrysostele Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, stephenPilosocereus collinsii Pilosocereus collinsii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos Domínguez-RodríguezPilosocereus curtisii Pilosocereus curtisii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Jose Luis Leon de la LuzPilosocereus fulvilanatus Pilosocereus fulvilanatus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, B. PhalanPilosocereus gaumeri Pilosocereus gaumeri Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Oscar Orlando Vazquez Piña all 21 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Pseudopilocereus magnificus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter ex D.R.Hunt
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
24 in range · 8 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 2026-10-22GBIF's key 3959157 is Pilosocereus magnificus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter; the page links Kew's Pilosocereus magnificus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter ex D.R.Hunt, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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 2026-10-2224 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Pilosocereus magnificus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter ex D.R.Hunt (the item's: IPNI 907977-1, POWO 196710-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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