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Internal ID UUID6440107b91f0c494042968
Scientific name Cereus repandus
Authority (L.) Mill.
First published in Gard. Dict.: Cereus 5. 1768.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Pilocereus fricii Backeb. in Möller's Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 45: 81. 1930.
Piptanthocereus peruvianus (L.) Riccob. in Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 8: 232. 1909.
Subpilocereus atroviridis (Backeb.) Backeb. in Kakteenkunde 1941: 59. 1941.
Subpilocereus remolinensis (Backeb.) Backeb. in Kakteenkunde 1941: 59. 1941.
Subpilocereus repandus (L.) Backeb. in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 23: 123. 1951.
Subpilocereus grenadensis (Britton & Rose) Backeb. Cactaceae 4: 2383. 1960.
Cactus peruvianus L. Sp. Pl.: 467. 1753.
Cactus repandus L. Sp. Pl.: 467. 1753.
Cephalocereus atroviridis (Backeb.) Borg Cacti: 149. 1951.
Cephalocereus remolinensis (Backeb.) Borg Cacti: 106. 1937.
Cereus atroviridis Backeb. Neue Kakteen: 69. 1931.
Cereus decandollei Pfeiff. ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 389. 1846.
Cereus grenadensis Britton & Rose Cactaceae 2: 18, 223. 1920.
Cereus hermannianus Suringar in Verslagen Meded. Afd. Natuurk. Kon. Akad. Wetensch., ser. 3, 2: 194. 1886.
Cereus margaritensis J.R.Johnst. in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 40: 693. 1905.
Cereus peruvianus (L.) Mill. Gard. Dict.: Cereus 4. 1768.
Cereus remolinensis Backeb. in Monatsschr. Deutsch. Kakteen-Ges. 2: 162. 1930.
Cereus spinosissimus C.F.Först. in Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 17: 165. 1861.
Cereus tinei Tod. Index Seminum (PAL) 1857: 39. 1857.
Cereus repandus var. laetevirens Salm-Dyck Hort. Dyck.: 335. 1834.
Cereus peruvianus var. brasiliensis C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 390. 1846.
Cereus peruvianus var. cristatus Graebener in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 11: 29. 1901.
Cereus decandollii Pfeiff. ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 389. 1846.
Cereus repandus (L.) Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ.: 183. 1812.
Pilocereus atroviridis (Backeb.) Backeb. in Möller's Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 45: 82. 1930.
Pilocereus repandus (L.) K.Schum. in: Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K. A. E., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6a): 181. 1894.
Subpilocereus margaritensis (J.R.Johnst.) Backeb. in Beitr. Sukkulentenk. Sukkulentenpflege 1941: 60. 1941.
Pilocereus russelianus subsp. margaritensis (J.R.Johnst.) Croizat in: Noved. Ci., Ser. Bot. 1: 3. 1950.
Subpilocereus repandus var. weberi Backeb. Cactaceae 4: 2385. 1960.
Subpilocereus russelianus var. margaritensis (J.R.Johnst.) Backeb. in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 23: 123. 1951.
Stenocereus peruvianus (Mill.) R.Kiesling in Darwiniana 24: 446. 1982.
Cereus russelianus Salm-Dyck Hort. Universel 1(2): 31. 1839 [dt. Jul 1839; issued 19 Jun 1939]

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Language Common/alternative name
English apple cactus
Spanish cadushi
Arabic شمعية عسماء
Arabic شمعية متموجة الحواف
French cierge du pérou
Hebrew קובו
Hebrew cereus peruvianus
Indonesian kaktus gada
Italian cereus peruvianus
Lithuanian venesuelinis stulpenis
pap kadushi
Turkish peru elma kaktüsü
Chinese 六角柱
Chinese 秘鲁天轮柱

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  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Aruba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Netherlands Antilles
      • Venezuelan Antilles
      • Windward Islands
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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World Flora Online wfo-0000597593
INPN 706023
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:130627-1
The Plant List kew-2712302
Open Tree Of Life 5740334
Observations.org 186777
NCBI Taxonomy 1484561
IUCN Red List 151752
IPNI 130627-1
iNaturalist 320319
GBIF 8429062
Freebase /m/01hz6g
EOL 5182239
USDA GRIN 9968
Wikipedia Cereus_repandus
PFAF Cereus repandus

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Pichia kurtzmaniana f.a. sp. nov., with the transfer of eight Candida species to Pichia Zhu HY, Guo LC, Hu S, Wei YH, Hui FL, Liu XZ, Bai FY Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 27-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10995725
doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006306
PMID:38536076
How Poor Is Aphyllophoroid Fungi Diversity in the Boreal Urban Greenhouses of Eastern Europe? Shiryaev AG, Zmitrovich IV, Senator SA, Minogina EN, Tkachenko OB J Fungi (Basel) 17-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10672352
doi:10.3390/jof9111116
PMID:37998921
Contrasting Pollination Strategies and Breeding Systems in Two Native Useful Cacti from Southern Brazil Becker R, Báez OP, Singer RF, Singer RB Plants (Basel) 13-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10053946
doi:10.3390/plants12061298
PMID:36986986
Response of xerophytic plants to glacial cycles in southern South America Ossa CG, Montenegro P, Larridon I, Pérez F Ann Bot 02-Feb-2019
PMCID:PMC6676391
doi:10.1093/aob/mcy235
PMID:30715148
Patterns of frugivory in the columnar cactus Pilosocereus leucocephalus Vázquez‐Castillo S, Miranda‐Jácome A, Ruelas Inzunza E Ecol Evol 08-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6374677
doi:10.1002/ece3.4833
PMID:30805158
Alternative glacial-interglacial refugia demographic hypotheses tested on Cephalocereus columna-trajani (Cactaceae) in the intertropical Mexican drylands Cornejo-Romero A, Vargas-Mendoza CF, Aguilar-Martínez GF, Medina-Sánchez J, Rendón-Aguilar B, Valverde PL, Zavala-Hurtado JA, Serrato A, Rivas-Arancibia S, Pérez-Hernández MA, López-Ortega G, Jiménez-Sierra C PLoS One 20-Apr-2017
PMCID:PMC5398652
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175905
PMID:28426818
Patterns of Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Richness and Relative Abundance along an Aridity Gradient in Western Venezuela Pérez-Sánchez AJ, Lattke JE, Viloria AL Neotrop Entomol 21-Dec-2012
PMCID:PMC3601267
doi:10.1007/s13744-012-0096-y
PMID:23949745
Community Impacts of Prosopis juliflora Invasion: Biogeographic and Congeneric Comparisons Kaur R, Gonzáles WL, Llambi LD, Soriano PJ, Callaway RM, Rout ME, Gallaher TJ, Inderjit PLoS One 12-Sep-2012
PMCID:PMC3440363
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044966
PMID:22984595
Cactus: a medicinal food Shetty AA, Rana MK, Preetham SP J Food Sci Technol 16-Jul-2011
PMCID:PMC3550841
doi:10.1007/s13197-011-0462-5
PMID:24082263
Pichia insulana sp. nov., a novel cactophilic yeast from the Caribbean Ganter PF, Cardinali G, Boundy-Mills K Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 01-Apr-2010
PMCID:PMC2888092
doi:10.1099/ijs.0.014258-0
PMID:19661524
The evolution of bat pollination: a phylogenetic perspective Fleming TH, Geiselman C, Kress WJ Ann Bot 29-Sep-2009
PMCID:PMC2766192
doi:10.1093/aob/mcp197
PMID:19789175
Allozyme Diversity and Morphometrics of Melocactus paucispinus (Cactaceae) and Evidence for Hybridization with M. concinnus in the Chapada Diamantina, North-eastern Brazil LAMBERT SM, BORBA EL, MACHADO MC, ANDRADE SC Ann Bot 01-Mar-2006
PMCID:PMC3291165
doi:10.1093/aob/mcj052
PMID:16423866
Cerheptaric Acid, A new lactone-forming acid isolated from cereus peruvianus (L.) mill Randi Kringstad Elsevier BV 25-Jul-2002
doi:10.1016/S0008-6215(00)84866-1
Occurrence of malonic acid in plants. BENTLEY LE Nature 01-Jan-1970
doi:10.1038/170847B0
PMID:13013230

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1,3-Dihydroxypentane-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid 10059997 Click to see C(CC(CC(C(=O)O)O)(C(=O)O)O)C(=O)O 236.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.1038/170847B0
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(2R)-3-[(2S,3S,4R)-3,4-dihydroxy-5-oxooxolan-2-yl]-2-hydroxypropanoic acid 131088040 Click to see 206.15 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/S0008-6215(00)84866-1
3-(3,4-Dihydroxy-5-oxooxolan-2-yl)-2-hydroxypropanoic acid 130020481 Click to see 206.15 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/S0008-6215(00)84866-1

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