Cereus Mill.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Assam, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, France, Free State, Hawaii, India, Italy, Jamaica, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Northern Provinces, Puerto Rico, Spain, Swaziland, Tunisia, Vietnam
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Cirinosum Neck. in Elem. Bot. 2: 84 (1790), opus utique oppr.
- Estevesia P.J.Braun in Kakteen And. Sukk. 60: 64 (2009)
- Piptanthocereus Riccob. in Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 8: 225 (1909)
- Praepilosocereus Guiggi in Cactology 2: 18 (2010)
- Subpilocereus Backeb. in Blätt. Kakteenf. 5(6): 8 (1938)
Accepted Species
- Cereus aethiops Haw.
- Cereus ayisyen M.H.J.van der Meer
- Cereus bicolor Rizzini & A.Mattos
- Cereus fernambucensis Lem.
- Cereus forbesii C.F.Först.
- Cereus fricii Backeb.
- Cereus hexagonus (L.) Mill.
- Cereus hildmannianus K.Schum.
- Cereus horrispinus Backeb.
- Cereus insularis Hemsl.
- Cereus jamacaru DC.
- Cereus lamprospermus K.Schum.
- Cereus lanosus (F.Ritter) P.J.Braun
- Cereus lepidotus Salm-Dyck
- Cereus mortensenii (Croizat) D.R.Hunt & N.P.Taylor
- Cereus pachyrrhizus K.Schum.
- Cereus phatnospermus K.Schum.
- Cereus pierre-braunianus Esteves
- Cereus repandus (L.) Mill.
- Cereus saddianus (Rizzini & A.Mattos) P.J.Braun
- Cereus spegazzinii F.A.C.Weber
- Cereus stenogonus K.Schum.
- Cereus trigonodendron K.Schum. ex Ule
- Cereus vargasianus Cárdenas
- Cereus yungasensis A.Fuentes & Quispe
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berg [BG566], Brazil | K000101603 | Yes | |||
| Zappi, D.C. [111], Paraguay | K000101602 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images