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Peniocereus
Sign in to savePeniocereus is a genus of vining cacti, comprising about 18 species, found from the southwestern United States and Mexico. They have a large underground tuber, thin and inconspicuous stems. Its name comes from the prefix penio- (from the Latin penis, meaning ‘tail’) and Cereus, the large genus from which it was split.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyCactaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Collections
- CIBNOR, CAS, IBUNAM, SD, MICH, ASU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, MéXico, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- ''Peniocereus [[sensu stricto]]''
- Formerly included species
- ''Nyctocereus''
- Subgenus ''Pseudoacanthocereus'' (Now Acanthocereus)
- References
Peniocereus is a genus of vining cacti, comprising about 18 species, found from the southwestern United States and Mexico. They have a large underground tuber, thin and inconspicuous stems. Its name comes from the prefix penio- (from the Latin penis, meaning ‘tail’) and Cereus, the large genus from which it was split.
Known as the desert night-blooming cereus, it also shares its common names of "night-blooming cereus" and "queen of the night" with many other similar cacti.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peniocereus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.