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Internal ID UUID64401a01d307d012173672
Scientific name Epiphyllum hookeri
Authority Haw.
First published in in Philos. Mag. Ann. Chem. 6: 108. 1829.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Cereus hookeri (Haw.) Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 125. 1837.
Epiphyllum phyllanthus var. hookeri (Haw.) Kimnach in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 36: 113. 1964.
Epiphyllum phyllanthus subsp. hookeri (Haw.) U.Guzmán in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 16: 17. 2003.
Phyllocactus hookeri (Haw.) Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck.: 38. 1850.
Phyllocactus hookeri (Haw.) Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 341. 1843.

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Language Common/alternative name
English climbing cactus
English nightblooming cactus
English nopalillo de hooker
Japanese エピフィルム・ホーケリ
Swedish stjärnbladkaktus
Chinese 待宵孔雀
Chinese 长带昙花
Chinese 紅柱曇花

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Name Authority First published in
Epiphyllum hookeri subsp. columbiense (F.A.C.Weber) Ralf Bauer in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 17: 26. 2003.
Epiphyllum hookeri subsp. guatemalense (Britton & Rose) Ralf Bauer in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 17: 25. 2003.
Epiphyllum hookeri subsp. hookeri
Epiphyllum hookeri subsp. pittieri (F.A.C.Weber) Ralf Bauer in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 17: 26. 2003.

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Florida
  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000670187
USDA Plants EPHO2
Tropicos 5100242
INPN 633367
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:132926-1
The Plant List kew-2791442
Open Tree Of Life 5517960
NCBI Taxonomy 1548882
IUCN Red List 151856
IPNI 132926-1
iNaturalist 274189
GBIF 6379095
EOL 1247664
USDA GRIN 413811
Wikipedia Epiphyllum_hookeri

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Ethnopharmacological Field Study of Three Q'eqchi Communities in Guatemala Vargas JM, Andrade-Cetto A Front Pharmacol 06-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6240767
doi:10.3389/fphar.2018.01246
PMID:30483122

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