Espostoa melanostele(Vaupel) Borg

WFO wfo-0000680879 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Espostoa melanostele, photographed by capacoscar
fig. a capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 200898386
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by capacoscar
fig. b capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200898234
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by capacoscar
fig. c capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200898313
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by Manuel Roncal
fig. d Manuel Roncal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 182169792
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by Manuel Roncal
fig. e Manuel Roncal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 182169895
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by capacoscar
fig. f capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123084181
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by capacoscar
fig. g capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102562712
Espostoa melanostele, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. h John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63941681

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Espostoa melanostele is native: Peru Peru
Native distribution of Espostoa melanostele, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Peru PER SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Binghamia melanostele (Vaupel) Britton & Rose
  • Cephalocereus melanostele Vaupel
  • Cereus melanostele (Vaupel) Werderm.
  • Cereus melanostele (Vaupel) A.Berger
  • Echinopsis melanostele (Vaupel) Molinari
  • Espostoa haagei (Poselg. ex Rümpler) Borg
  • Espostoa haagei (Poselg. ex Rümpler) F.Ritter
  • Espostoa melanostele f. inermis (Backeb.) Krainz
  • Espostoa nana F.Ritter
  • Haageocereus melanostele (Vaupel) W.T.Marshall
  • Pilocereus haagei Poselg. ex Rümpler
  • Pseudoespostoa melanostele (Vaupel) Backeb.
  • Pseudoespostoa melanostele var. inermis Backeb.
  • Pseudoespostoa nana (F.Ritter) Backeb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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