Selenicereus

Selenicereus grandiflorus

Taxonavigation[edit]

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

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Hylocereeae
Genus: Selenicereus
Sectiones: S. sect. Cryptocereus – S. sect. Selenicereus
Species: S. anthonyanus – S. atropilosus – S. boeckmannii – S. coniflorus – S. dorschianus – S. grandiflorus – S. hamatus – S. inermis – S. macdonaldiae – S. murrillii – S. pteranthus – S. spinulosus – S. urbanianus – S. vagans – S. validus
Nothospecies: S. × callianthus

Name[edit]

Selenicereus (A.Berger) Britton & Rose, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 429 (1909).

Type species: Selenicereus grandiflorus (L.) Nathaniel Lord Britton

Synonyms[edit]

Basionym
- Cereus subsect. Selenicereus A.Berger, Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 16: 76 (1905).
- Cereus subg. Selenicereus (A.Berger) A.Berger, Kakteen: 6: 110 (1929).

Homotypic
- Cereus [infragen.gruppe] Testudines Vaupel in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 21: 640, 642 (1925).

Heterotypic
- Cereus [infragen.unranked] Divaricati Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1841: 32 (1841).
  - Type species: non design.
- Cereus [infragen.unranked] Principales K.Schum., Gesamtb. Kakt. (1): 55 (Feb) (1897).
  - Type species: non design.
- Cereus [infragen.unranked] Radicantes Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1841: 31 (1841).
  - Cereus sect. Radicantes (Salm-Dyck) Walp., Rep. Bot. Syst. 2: 278 (1843), p.p.
    - Type species: non design.
- Cereus [infragen.unranked] Rostrati K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6a): 179 (1894).
  - Type species: Cereus rostratus Lem.
- Cereus [infragen.unranked] Serpentes Pfeiff. ex Lem., Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov. 59, 77 (1839), p.p.
  - - Type species: non design.
- Cryptocereus Alexander, Cact. Succ. J. Los Angeles 22: 164 (1950).
  - Type species: Cryptocereus anthonyanus Alexander

Hybrids[edit]

× Disoselenicereus – × Seleniopsis – × Seleniphyllum – × Selenirisia – × Selenochia

References[edit]

Britton, N.L. & Rose, J.N. (1909) Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 429.
Selenicereus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)

Vernacular names[edit]

English: Moonlight Cacti
suomi: Yökaktukset
français: Cierge de Sélène
русский: Царица ночи (Принцесса ночи)
svenska: Nattkaktussläktet

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