Scientific taxonomy article
Accepted name and nomenclatural record
Kew POWO accepts Cleistocactus colademononis with the author citation (Diers & Krahn) Mottram; IPNI confirms the first-publication record as “Cact. World 24: 21 (2006)”.12 The native distribution is Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The native range is associated with dry rocky habitats in Santa Cruz; a trailing cultivated form is not evidence of native habitat or definitive identity.
Classification and production boundary
The live lineage is species → Cleistocactus → Cactaceae → Caryophyllales → Plantae. This package owns only the existing species node and its direct Cleistocactus genus relationship; it creates or updates no genus, family, order or kingdom node. Long trailing stems, a dense white hair-like spine cover, areole pattern, tubular red flowers, fruit, seeds and documented provenance should be evaluated together.
Identification cannot be reduced to one product photograph, spine colour or trailing versus columnar habit. Stem orientation, ribs, areoles, spine cover, flowers, fruit, seeds, native range and documented provenance should be evaluated together.3
Synonymy and canonical boundary
The current Kew surface maintains 6 nomenclatural synonym records. The current Kew surface maintains six homotypic names, including the historical subspecies combination Cleistocactus winteri subsp. colademono. The current accepted identity is the separate species C. colademononis. Homotypic names share a nomenclatural type; heterotypic names represent historical opinions based on other types. None creates a separate accepted product, botanical or taxonomy route.
The historical nomenclatural link to winteri does not transfer winteri’s global EN status to colademononis. Monkey-tail legacy slugs are preserved but do not change the accepted name. Synonyms support search and literature retrieval only; names of other accepted species are not moved into this canonical payload.
Range and global conservation
The native distribution is recorded as Santa Cruz, Bolivia.1 Commercial inventory, nursery origin, price and sales frequency are not measures of wild-population status.
The global conservation field is NE.4 The field remains NE because no maintained species-level global assessment was found. Winteri’s EN assessment is not copied to the separately accepted colademononis.
Editorial ownership boundary
Product name and copy, price, stock, SKU, images, variants, categories, common names, slugs and the product-to-botanical link are not changed by this taxonomy-only source. Live toxicity, difficulty and light enums are carried forward exactly; watering, temperature and soil metrics are omitted from the curated source and preserved from live data. Protected legacy botanical aliases: botanical-dictionary/monkeys-tail-cactus, bitki-sozlugu/maymun-kuyrugu-kaktusu.
References
- Plants of the World Online. “Cleistocactus colademononis (Diers & Krahn) Mottram” Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/77077298-1 ↩
- International Plant Names Index. “Cleistocactus colademononis.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://www.ipni.org/n/77077298-1 ↩
- Lowry, M. “A synopsis of the genus Cleistocactus Lemaire (Cactaceae).” Bradleya 34: 148–186. Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n34.2016.a6 ↩
- IUCN Red List. “Cleistocactus winteri assessment excluded from colademononis.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/151756/558142 ↩
