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Gymnocalycium chiquitanum Sebastián Santecchia, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF · observed growing wild

Gymnocalycium chiquitanum Cárdenas

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 8 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Gymnocalycium chiquitanum is a species of cactus in the genus Gymnocalycium, endemic to Bolivia.

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

About the genus · Gymnocalycium

Gymnocalycium, commonly called chin cactus, is a genus of about 70 South American species of cactus. The genus name Gymnocalycium refers to the flower buds bearing no hair or spines. In a 2023 classification of the tribe Cereeae, it was placed as the only genus in the subtribe Gymnocalyciinae, having formerly been placed in the subtribe Rebutiinae.

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

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Cárdenas
Native to
Bolivia
Wild records
4 in range· 1 open

Also known as Gymnocalycium chiquitanum var. hammerschmidii (Backeb.) H.Till; Gymnocalycium hammerschmidii Backeb.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Gymnocalycium, 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 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold 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.
NativeBolivia
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-17.856, -60.711 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays 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 4 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: Sebastián Santecchia, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF (7).

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 Gymnocalycium chiquitanum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2021) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2017) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Gymnocalycium chiquitanum: Lowry, M.
IUCN (2012) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Gymnocalycium chiquitanum: Lowry, M.
IUCN (2012) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Other Gymnocalycium 63 in the reference

Gymnocalycium affine Cactaceae Gymnocalycium alboareolatum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium alenae Cactaceae Gymnocalycium amerhauseri Cactaceae Gymnocalycium andreae Cactaceae Gymnocalycium anisitsii Cactaceae Gymnocalycium baldianum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium basiatrum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium bayrianum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium berchtii Cactaceae Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum Cactaceae Gymnocalycium bruchii Cactaceae all 64 ›

History & registers

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Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
inat.taxon not asked
inat.photos.wild not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: not asked: 8 wild photographs already from the GBIF download
inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: filled 2026-09-20
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.