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Weberocereus imitans (Kimnach & Hutchison) Buxb.

Cactaceae · Costa Rica, Honduras · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Weberocereus imitans (Kimnach & Hutchison) Buxb.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Kimnach & Hutch.) Buxb.

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Summary

Weberocereus imitans, commonly known as fishbone cactus or zig-zag cactus, is an epiphytic cactus native to Costa Rica. Its flower is small compared with the other two "fishbone cacti", Selenicereus anthonyanus and Disocactus anguliger.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Weberocereus imitans", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Weberocereus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent 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 Weberocereus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent 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: 17 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 17 of the 17 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, Honduras · 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 marker8.731, -83.455 · in the densest population, 17 records (100% of those in range)

Kew's description“succulent epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 17 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 17 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 17 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Weberocereus 3 in the reference

Weberocereus bradei Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, C T Johansson

Weberocereus rosei Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Ulf Eliasson Weberocereus tunilla Cactaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Cryptocereus imitans; Eccremocactus imitans; Werckleocereus imitans. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(Kimnach & Hutchison) Buxb.

Native to

Costa Rica, Honduras

Wild records

17 in range · 17 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 3948698 is Weberocereus imitans (Kimnach & Hutch.) Buxb.; the page links Kew's Weberocereus imitans (Kimnach & Hutchison) Buxb., 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 2026-10-2217 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 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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.