Acanthocereus

Acanthocereus subinermis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG III Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Phyllocacteae
Subtribus: Hylocereinae
Genus: Acanthocereus
Species: A. castellae – A. chiapensis – A. baxaniensis – A. cuixmalensis – A. fosterianus – A. hirschtianus – A. horridus – A. macdougallii – A. maculatus – A. marnierianus – A. oaxacensis – A. occidentalis – A. rosei – A. subinermis – A. tepalcatepecanus – A. tetragonus

Name

• Acanthocereus (Engelm.) Britton & Rose (1909)
  • Lectotype species:  Acanthocereus baxaniensis (Karwinsky ex Pfeiffer) Borg, vide Hunt (1991). (Cereus baxaniensis Karw. ex Pfeiff.)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Cereus subg. Acanthocereus Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 2: 202-204. 1863.

• Homotypic
  • Cereus subsect. Acanthocereus (Engelm.) A.Berger, Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 16: 77. 1905

• Heterotypic
  • Cereus [infragen.unranked] Acutanguli Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849: 49. 1850.
    • Type species:  Cereus acutangulus Pfeiff.
  • Cereus [infragen.unranked] Articulati Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1841: 29. 1841, p.p.
    • Type species: non design.
  • Cereus [infragen.unranked] Extensi Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact. 107. 1837, nom. illeg. (Art. 53.1)
  • Cereus [infragen.unranked] Variabiles Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849: 49. 1850.
    • Type species:  Cereus variabilis Pfeiff.
  • Peniocereus subg. Pseudoacanthocereus Sanchez-Mej., Cact. Suc. Mex. 19(2): 38. 1974.
    • Type species:  Peniocereus maculatus (Weing.) Cutak

Notes

• The genus is sometimes treated as monotypic.

References

• Arias, S. & al. (2005) Phylogenetic relationships in Peniocereus (Cactaceae) inferred from plastid DNA sequence data. Journal of Plant Research 118(5): 317-328.
• Britton, N.L. & Rose, J.N. (1909) Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 432.
• Hunt, D. (1991) Bradleya 9: 82.
• Hunt, D. (1998) Further notes on Acanthocereus (Engelmann ex Berger) B. and R. Cactaceae Consensus Initiatives 5: 15-17.
• Hunt, D. (2000) Notes on miscellaneous genera of Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae. Acanthocereus. Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives 9: 13-15.

Vernacular names

English: Barbed-wire cactus, sword-pear, triangle cactus
lietuvių: Sijūnas
svenska: Snårpelarkaktussläktet

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