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Epiphyllum oxypetalum

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Internal ID UUID64401a02b502a142689072
Scientific name Epiphyllum oxypetalum
Authority (DC.) Haw.
First published in in Philos. Mag. Ann. Chem. 6: 109. 1829.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Phyllocactus guyanensis Brongn. ex Labour. Monogr. Cact.: 416. 1853.
Phyllocactus latifrons (Zucc. ex Pfeiff.) Link ex Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 341. 1843.
Cactus oxypetalus Moc. & Sessé ex DC. Prodr. 3: 470. 1828.
Cereus latifrons Zucc. ex Pfeiff. in Denkschr. Akad. Muench. 2: 735. 1837.
Cereus oxypetalus DC. Prodr. 3: 470. 1828.
Epiphyllum acuminatum K.Schum. Fl. Bras. 4(2): 222. 1890.
Epiphyllum grande (Lem.) Britton & Rose in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 257. 1913.
Epiphyllum latifrons (Zucc. ex Pfeiff.) Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 125. 1837.
Epiphyllum oxypetalum var. purpusii (Weing.) Backeb. Cactaceae 2: 747. 1959.
Epiphyllum purpusii (Weing.) F.M.Knuth Kaktus-ABC: 161. 1936.
Phyllocactus grandis Lem. Fl. des Serres 3: 255. 1847.
Phyllocactus acuminatus (K.Schum.) K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 213. 1897.
Phyllocactus purpusii Weing. in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 34. 1907.
Phyllocactus oxypetalus (DC.) Link ex Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 341. 1843.

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Language Common/alternative name
English dutchman's pipe cactus
Spanish nopalillo criollo
bcl engkantada de noche (epiphyllum oxypetalum)
Bengali নিশিপদ্ম
Persian ملکه شب
French fleur de lune
Indonesian bakawali
Japanese 月下美人
Japanese ゲッカビジン
Kannada ರಾತ್ರಿ ರಾಣಿ
Malayalam അനന്തശയനം(പുഷ്പം)
Malayalam നിശാഗന്ധി
Malayalam ബ്രഹ്മകമലം
Marathi ब्रह्मकमळ
Marathi डचमन्स पाईप कॅक्टस
nan khêng-hoe
Sinhala කඩුපුල්
Swedish stor bladkaktus
Tamil பிரம்ம கமலம்
Vietnamese dạ quỳnh, quỳnh trắng
Chinese 曇花
Chinese 昙花
Chinese 昙花茎

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Pacific
    • Northwestern Pacific
      • Marshall Islands
    • South-central Pacific
      • Marquesas
      • Pitcairn Islands
      • Society Islands
      • Tuamotu
      • Tubuai Islands
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Venezuelan Antilles
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000670203
USDA Plants EPOX
Tropicos 5101079
INPN 447020
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:132938-1
The Plant List kew-2791457
Open Tree Of Life 3943506
NCBI Taxonomy 1195123
IUCN Red List 152393
IPNI 132938-1
iNaturalist 85410
GBIF 5384031
Freebase /m/026pbn9
EPPO EPYOX
EOL 482221
USDA GRIN 27844
Wikipedia Epiphyllum_oxypetalum

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Scientific Literature Top

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Leveraging citizen science for monitoring urban forageable plants Soares FM, Ferreira Pires L, Garcia MC, Bouzembrak Y, Coradin L, Ghilardi-Lopes NP, Silva RR, de Carvalho AM, Maculan BC, Koffler S, Montedo UB, Drucker DP, Santiago R, Gavai A, de Carvalho MC, Lima AC, Gabriel HD, de França SG, de Almeida KR, dos Santos BJ, Saraiva AM Gigascience 05-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10914215
doi:10.1093/gigascience/giae007
PMID:38442146
Synergistic effect of Panax ginseng, Polygonatum cyrtonema, Epiphyllum oxypetalum, Nelumbo nucifera and Osmanthus fragrans extracts on skin aging regulation. From in silico predictions to in vitro outcome Feng C, Serre C, Chen W, Imbert I, Zhu L, Ling F Heliyon 29-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10915351
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26131
PMID:38449662
Citizen science data on urban forageable plants: a case study in Brazil Soares FM, Ferreira Pires L, Garcia MC, Coradin L, Ghilardi-Lopes NP, Silva RR, de Carvalho AM, Gavai A, Bouzembrak Y, Maculan BC, Koffler S, Montedo UB, Drucker DP, Santiago R, de Carvalho MC, Lima AC, Gabriel HD, de França SG, de Almeida KR, dos Santos BJ, Saraiva AM GigaByte 21-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10905257
doi:10.46471/gigabyte.107
PMID:38434929
Ethnobotanical study on edible flowers in Xishuangbanna, China Zhang Q, Cheng Z, Fan Y, Zhang D, Wang M, Zhang J, Sommano S, Wu X, Long C J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 30-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10542681
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00608-1
PMID:37777741
Natural Products and Derivatives as Potential Zika virus Inhibitors: A Comprehensive Review Pereira RS, Santos FC, Campana PR, Costa VV, de Pádua RM, Souza DG, Teixeira MM, Braga FC Viruses 20-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10222392
doi:10.3390/v15051211
PMID:37243296
Do carbon stocks and floristic diversity of tropical homegardens vary along an elevational gradient and based on holding size in central Kerala, India? Kumar BM Agrofor Syst 07-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10081327
doi:10.1007/s10457-023-00821-7
PMID:37193256
Plastome variations reveal the distinct evolutionary scenarios of plastomes in the subfamily Cereoideae (Cactaceae) Yu J, Li J, Zuo Y, Qin Q, Zeng S, Rennenberg H, Deng H BMC Plant Biol 08-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC9993602
doi:10.1186/s12870-023-04148-4
PMID:36882685
An Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in Kinmen Huang SS, Huang CH, Ko CY, Chen TY, Cheng YC, Chao J Front Pharmacol 09-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8864234
doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.681190
PMID:35222004
Betalains in Edible Fruits of Three Cactaceae Taxa—Epiphyllum, Hylocereus, and Opuntia—Their LC-MS/MS and FTIR Identification and Biological Activities Evaluation Barkociová M, Tóth J, Sutor K, Drobnicka N, Wybraniec S, Dudík B, Bilková A, Czigle S Plants (Basel) 04-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8708308
doi:10.3390/plants10122669
PMID:34961142
Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Application as Antibacterial and Antifungal Agents Rozhin A, Batasheva S, Kruychkova M, Cherednichenko Y, Rozhina E, Fakhrullin R Micromachines (Basel) 29-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8708042
doi:10.3390/mi12121480
PMID:34945330
Hyperoside promotes pollen tube growth by regulating the depolymerization effect of actin-depolymerizing factor 1 on microfilaments in okra Dong B, Yang Q, Song Z, Niu L, Cao H, Liu T, Du T, Yang W, Qi M, Chen T, Wang M, Jin H, Meng D, Fu Y Hortic Res 01-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8245483
doi:10.1038/s41438-021-00578-z
PMID:34193835
Anti-gout Potential of Malaysian Medicinal Plants Abu Bakar FI, Abu Bakar MF, Rahmat A, Abdullah N, Sabran SF, Endrini S Front Pharmacol 23-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC5876239
doi:10.3389/fphar.2018.00261
PMID:29628890
Relative Crystallinity of Plant Biomass: Studies on Assembly, Adaptation and Acclimation Harris D, DeBolt S PLoS One 06-Aug-2008
PMCID:PMC2483349
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002897
PMID:18682826
Preventing Establishment: An Inventory of Introduced Plants in Puerto Villamil, Isabela Island, Galapagos Guézou A, Pozo P, Buddenhagen C PLoS One 17-Oct-2007
PMCID:PMC2002516
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001042
PMID:17940606

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