Acanthocereus

Taxonavigation

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

Source(s) of checklist:
Korotkova, N. et al. 2021. Acanthocereus in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 21. Reference page.

Acanthocereus (Engelm.) Britton & Rose (1909)
- Lectotype species: Acanthocereus baxaniensis (Karwinsky ex Pfeiffer) Borg, vide Hunt (1991). (Cereus baxaniensis Karw. ex Pfeiff.) vide Acanthocereus tetragonus (L.) Humm. (1938)

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 subsect. 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

Doweld, A.B. 2005. Adjustments in the nomenclature of the genera Acanthocereus, Heliocereus and Nyctocereus (Cactaceae). Sukkulenty 8(1–2): 13–15. Reference page.
Arias, S. & al. (2005) Phylogenetic relationships in Peniocereus (Cactaceae) inferred from plastid DNA sequence data. Journal of Plant Research 118 (5): 317–328.
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.
Korotkova, N., Aquino, D., Arias, S., Eggli, U., Franck, A. , Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Guerrero, P.C., Hernández, H.M., Kohlbecker, A., Köhler, M., Luther, K., Majure, L.C., Müller, A., Metzing, D., Nyffeler, R., Sánchez, D., Schlumpberger, B. & Berendsohn, W.G. 2021. Cactaceae at Caryophyllales. org–a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. Willdenowia 51(2): 251–270. DOI: 10.3372/wi.51.51208 Reference page.

Korotkova, N. et al. 2021. Acanthocereus in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 21. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Acanthocereus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 21. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Acanthocereus. Published online. Accessed: Dec 21 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Acanthocereus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 21 Dec 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Acanthocereus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 21. Reference page.

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

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