Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations
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Native range 2 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Bolivia | BOL | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Peru | PER |
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 96 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -4.7 °C | -2.1 °C | 1.6 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 10.0 °C | 14.1 °C | 17.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 784 mm | 1,071 mm | 1,803 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 37 mm | 58 mm | 132 mm |
It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 96 research-grade observations of Lobivia backebergii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 20 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.
- Echinopsis backebergii Werderm.
- Echinopsis backebergii subsp. wrightiana (Backeb.) M.Lowry
- Lobivia backebergiana Y.Itô
- Lobivia backebergii subsp. wrightiana (Backeb.) Rausch
- Lobivia backebergii subsp. zecheri (Rausch) Rausch
- Lobivia backebergii subsp. zecheri (Rausch) Rausch ex G.D.Rowley
- Lobivia backebergii var. oxyalabastra (Cárdenas & Rausch) Rausch
- Lobivia backebergii var. winteriana (F.Ritter) Rausch
- Lobivia backebergii var. wrightiana (Backeb.) Rausch
- Lobivia backebergii var. zecheri (Rausch) Rausch
- Lobivia hertrichiana f. divaricata (F.Ritter) J.Ullmann
- Lobivia oxyalabastra Cárdenas & Rausch
- Lobivia winteriana F.Ritter
- Lobivia wrightiana Backeb.
- Lobivia wrightiana var. winteriana (F.Ritter) Rausch
- Lobivia zecheri Rausch
- Lobivia zencheri Rausch
- Neolobivia divaricata F.Ritter
- Neolobivia winteriana (F.Ritter) F.Ritter
- Neolobivia wrightiana (Backeb.) Y.Itô
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.