Weingartia frankiana (Rausch) F.H.Brandt
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Weingartia frankiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, endemic to Bolivia. It was first described by Walter Rausch in 1970 as Sulcorebutia frankiana.
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About the genus · Weingartia
Weingartia is a genus in the family Cactaceae, with species native to Bolivia and Argentina. It was formerly included in Rebutia, but molecular phylogenetic evidence suggested that it was distinct from that genus. As of December 2024, it was treated as separate genus by Plants of the World Online, and recognized as an alternative generic name in the third edition of the CITES Cactaceae Checklist. More on Wikipedia ›
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Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Weingartia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.
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 Weingartia 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
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3948079 (Weingartia frankiana (Rausch) F.H.Brandt, 2 records), 7284404 (Sulcorebutia frankiana Rausch, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
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Related
Other Weingartia 33 in the reference
Weingartia arenacea Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Mats Winberg
Weingartia breviflora Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Mats Winberg [Ticket#2007030410011748] Weingartia candiae Cactaceae 
Weingartia canigueralii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Nolan Exe Weingartia cantargalloensis Cactaceae Weingartia cardenasiana Cactaceae Weingartia corroana Cactaceae Weingartia crispata Cactaceae Weingartia cuprea Cactaceae 
Weingartia cylindrica Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Mats Winberg Weingartia diersiana Cactaceae all 34 ›Names & registers
Also known as Sulcorebutia frankiana var. intermedia; Weingartia aureispina; Sulcorebutia frankiana; Sulcorebutia frankiana var. aureispina; Sulcorebutia frankiana var. variabilis and 1 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Weingartia frankiana (Rausch) F.H.Brandt (plant_name_id 2465712), read from Kew's names filegbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this 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; 2 records of GBIF's key 3948079, Weingartia frankiana (Rausch) F.H.Brandt (Kew's file holds it as Weingartia frankiana (Rausch) F.H.Brandt (accepted)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 7284404, Sulcorebutia frankiana Rausch (Kew's file holds it as Sulcorebutia frankiana Rausch (synonym under Weingartia frankiana (Rausch) F.H.Brandt)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate 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 envelopewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 268073-2, POWO 268073-2wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.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 askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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.