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Cereus"><i>C.</i> subg. <i>Cereus</i></a> <br /> Species: <i><b>Cereus hexagonus</b></i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Cereus hexagonus</i> (<a href="/wiki/L." class="mw-redirect" title="L.">L.</a>) <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Miller" title="Philip Miller">Mill.</a></span></span> (1768) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Synonyms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Cactus hexagonus</i> L., Sp. Pl.: 466. 1753 syn. sec. Hunt 2016 <ul><li><i> Cereus surinamensis</i> Trew, Ephem. Nat. Cur. 3: 394. 1733 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li> <li><i>Cactus hexagonus</i> Lam., Encycl. 1(2): 538. 1785 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li> <li><i>Cactus regalis</i> Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 2: 496. 1825 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)</li> <li><i>Cereus horridus</i> Otto ex Pfeiff. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 5: 370. 1837 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)</li> <li><i>Cereus thalassinus</i> Otto & A.Dietr. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 6: 34. 1838 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Acanthocereus thalassinus</i> (Otto & A.Dietr.) Borg, Cacti, ed. 1: 133. 1937 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019) <ul><li><i>Cactus octogonus</i> Page ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 246. 1840 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li> <li><i>Cereus northumberlandianus</i> Lamb. in Gard. Mag. (London) 17: 91. 1841 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li> <li><i>Cereus perrottetianus</i> Lem., Icon. Cact.: pl. 8. 1841 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li> <li><i>Cereus thalassinus var. quadrangularis</i> C.F.Först., Handb. Cacteenk.: 399. 1846 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li> <li><i>Cereus lepidotus</i> Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 207. 1850 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1920</li></ul></li> <li><i>Piptanthocereus lepidotus</i> Backeb. in Blätt. Kakteenf. 1934(12): 7. 1934 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019) <ul><li><i>Cereus perlucens</i> K.Schum. in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 10: 173. 1900 syn. sec. Hunt 2016</li></ul></li> <li><i>Pilocereus perlucens</i> (K.Schum.) Werderm., Bras. Säulenkakt.: 112. 1933 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)</li> <li><i>Cephalocereus perlucens</i> (K.Schum.) Borg, Cacti, ed. 2: 144. 1951 syn. sec. Hunt 2016</li> <li><i>Pilosocereus perlucens</i> (K.Schum.) Byles & G.D.Rowley in Cact. Succ. J. Gr. Brit. 19(3): 67. 1957 syn. sec. Hunt 2016 <ul><li><i>Cereus horridus var. alatosquamatus</i> Werderm. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 12: 452. 1935 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)</li> <li><i>Cereus longiflorus</i> Alexander in Lloydia 2: 199. 1939 syn. sec. Tropicos</li> <li><i>Cactus peruvianus</i> DC., Pl. Hist. Succ.: t. 58. 1800, nom. inval., syn. sec. POWO. Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Homonyms</b>: <ul><li><i>Cactus hexagonus</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Vell.</span></span> (1829) = unplaced.</li> <li><i>Cactus hexagonus</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Lam.</span></span> (1785) = <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melocactus_monoclonos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Melocactus monoclonos (page does not exist)">Melocactus monoclonos</a></i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">DC.</span></span> ex <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Steud.</span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Distribution">Distribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Nadi&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: Distribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background: transparent;color: inherit; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:70%; clear: left; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background: #F0F2F5;color: #202122; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:115%">Native distribution areas:</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: White; color: #202122;"> <div style="font-size: 100%"> <ul><li><b>Continental: Southern America</b> <ul><li><b>Regional: Caribbean </b> <ul><li>Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <hr /> <p><span style="font-size: 100%;">References: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/tdwg/wgsrpd/blob/master/109-488-1-ED/2nd%20Edition/TDWG_geo2.pdf"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Brummitt, R.K.</span></span> 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2<sup>nd</sup> Edition</a></span> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_references">Primary references</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Primary references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Miller" title="Philip Miller">Miller, P.</a></span></span> 1768. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gardeners_Dictionary:_eighth_edition" title="The Gardeners Dictionary: eighth edition">The Gardeners Dictionary</a>: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery.</i> Ed. 8, 3 volumes (without pagination), John & Francis Rivington, London. <span class="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5962%2Fbhl.title.541">10.5962/bhl.title.541</a></span> <a href="/wiki/Template:Miller,_1768" title="Template:Miller, 1768">Reference page</a>. : ed. 8, n. 1.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Additional_references">Additional references</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Additional references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bernal, R., Gradstein, R.S. & Celis, M. (eds.) (2016). Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia 1-2: 1-3068. Libro impreso.</li> <li>Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Rafa%C3%ABl_Herman_Anna_Govaerts" title="Rafaël Herman Anna Govaerts">Govaerts, R.</a></span></span> 1999. <i><a href="/wiki/World_Checklist_of_Seed_Plants" title="World Checklist of Seed Plants">World Checklist of Seed Plants</a></i> 3(1, 2a & 2b). 1532 pp.. 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Franck">Franck, A. </a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Carlos_G%C3%B3mez-Hinostrosa" title="Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa">Gómez-Hinostrosa, C.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Pablo_C._Guerrero" title="Pablo C. Guerrero">Guerrero, P.C.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Manuel_Hern%C3%A1ndez" title="Héctor Manuel Hernández">Hernández, H.M.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Kohlbecker, A.</span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Matias_K%C3%B6hler" title="Matias Köhler">Köhler, M.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Luther, K.</span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Lucas_C._Majure" title="Lucas C. Majure">Majure, L.C.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname">Müller, A.</span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Detlev_Metzing" title="Detlev Metzing">Metzing, D.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Reto_Nyffeler" title="Reto Nyffeler">Nyffeler, R.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_S%C3%A1nchez" title="Daniel Sánchez">Sánchez, D.</a></span></span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Boris_O._Schlumpberger" title="Boris O. Schlumpberger">Schlumpberger, B.</a></span></span> & <span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Guenther_Berendsohn" title="Walter Guenther Berendsohn">Berendsohn, W.G.</a></span></span> 2021. Cactaceae at Caryophyllales. org–a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_0511-9618" title="ISSN 0511-9618"><i>Willdenowia</i></a> 51(2): 251–270. <span class="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3372%2Fwi.51.51208">10.3372/wi.51.51208</a></span> <span style="position:relative; top: -1px; display: inline-block;text-align: center;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Open access"><img alt="Open access" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/11px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/17px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/23px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Template:Korotkova_et_al.,_2021" title="Template:Korotkova et al., 2021">Reference page</a>. </li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Links">Links</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cereus_hexagonus&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Nadja_Korotkova" title="Nadja Korotkova">Korotkova, N.</a></span></span> <i>et al.</i> 2021. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://caryophyllales.org/cactaceae/cdm_dataportal/search/results/taxon?ws=portal%2Ftaxon%2Ffind&search%5BdoSynonyms%5D=1&search%5BdoTaxa%5D=1&query=Cereus+hexagonus"><span style="font-style:italic;">Cereus hexagonus</span></a> in <i>Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org</i>. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Nov 28. <a href="/wiki/Template:CACO" title="Template:CACO">Reference page</a>. </li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="vcard"><span class="fn n nickname"><a href="/wiki/Rafa%C3%ABl_Herman_Anna_Govaerts" title="Rafaël Herman Anna Govaerts">Govaerts, R.</a></span></span> <i>et al.</i> 2021. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://powo.science.kew.org/?q=Cereus+hexagonus"><span style="font-style:italic;"><i>Cereus hexagonus</i></span></a> in <i>Kew Science Plants of the World Online</i>. The Board of Trustees of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew" class="extiw" title="en:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew">Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew</a>. Published online. 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