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Vatricania guentheri (Kupper) Backeb.

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

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Summary

Vatricania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cactaceae. It contains just one species, Vatricania guentheri. It has the common name of red tail cactus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Vatricania", 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 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 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: 23 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 23 of the 23 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: 7823916 (Espostoa guentheri (Kupper) Buxb. ex Eggli, 27 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeBolivia · 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-18.723, -64.315 · in the densest population, 23 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 23 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 23 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 7823916 (Espostoa guentheri (Kupper) Buxb. ex Eggli): Kew's file holds it as Espostoa guentheri (Kupper) Buxb. ex Eggli (synonym under Vatricania guentheri (Kupper) Backeb.); 27 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 23 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: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5); Peter A. Mansfeld, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Names & registers

Also known as Echinopsis guentheri; Espostoa guentheri; Cleistocactus guentheri; Cephalocereus guentheri; Cereus guentheri. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(Kupper) Backeb.
Native to
Bolivia
Wild records
23 in range · 10 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 Vatricania guentheri (Kupper) Backeb. (plant_name_id 2456152), 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; 27 records of GBIF's key 7823916, Espostoa guentheri (Kupper) Buxb. ex Eggli (Kew's file holds it as Espostoa guentheri (Kupper) Buxb. ex Eggli (synonym under Vatricania guentheri (Kupper) Backeb.)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 139014-1, POWO 139014-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Vatricania guentheri to Vatricania, this species' genus (Q21447951), which holds one accepted species in Kew's WCVP
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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