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Eriosyce chilensis (Hildm. ex K.Schum.) Katt.

Chilenito

No habitat climate 85 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Eriosyce chilensis or "Chilenito" is a critically endangered species of cactus from Chile. Found on the coast between Coquimbo and Valparaíso, the plant is one of the world's 100 most threatened species according to the IUCN. Its rarity is primarily due to its small native habitat range and illegal overcollection for the ornamental cactus trade. The cactus has two known varieties, which are similar except that var. chilensis produces red flowers while var. albidiflora produces yellow flowers.

Text from Wikipedia, “Eriosyce chilensis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Eriosyce

Eriosyce is a genus of cacti native to Chile.

Text from Wikipedia, “Eriosyce”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(Hildm. ex K.Schum.) Katt.

Native to

Chile Central

Wild records

189 in range· 47 open

Also known as Chilenia chilensis (Hildm. ex K.Schum.) Backeb.; Chilenia chilensis (Hildm. ex K.Schum.) Backeb. ex A.W.Hill; Chilenia pseudochilensis Backeb.; Echinocactus chilensis Hildm.; Echinocactus chilensis Hildm. ex K.Schum. and 9 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Eriosyce, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

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.

NativeChile Central

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-32.294, -71.503 · in the densest population, 189 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 189 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 47 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 188 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 189 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Cody Hinchliff, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Eriosyce chilensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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