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Internal ID UUID64405a95ae364940656495
Scientific name Myrtillocactus cochal
Authority (Orcutt) Britton & Rose
First published in in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 427. 1909.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Cereus cochal Orcutt in W. Amer. Sci. 6(43): 29. 1889.
Cereus geometrizans var. cochal (Orcutt) K.Brandegee in Zoë 5: 4. 1900.
Myrtillocactus geometrizans var. cochal (Orcutt) W.T.Marshall

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Language Common/alternative name
Spanish cochal
Spanish cereus cochal
Russian Миртиллокактус Коха
Russian cereus cochal
Chinese 乌沙树

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001287217
Tropicos 5100588
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:166635-2
The Plant List tro-5100588
Open Tree Of Life 661191
NCBI Taxonomy 867465
IUCN Red List 152269
IPNI 166635-2
iNaturalist 274226
GBIF 3941600
EOL 5182054
USDA GRIN 438490
Wikipedia Myrtillocactus_cochal

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Are 150 km of open sea enough? Gene flow and population differentiation in a bat-pollinated columnar cactus Arenas S, Búrquez A, Bustamante E, Scheinvar E, Eguiarte LE PLoS One 29-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10309638
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0282932
PMID:37384637
Herbivory in Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Cactaceae): Do Parasitoids Provide Indirect Defense or a Direct Advantage? Callejas-Chavero A, Martínez-Hernández DG, Vargas-Mendoza CF, Flores-Martínez A Plants (Basel) 22-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9824105
doi:10.3390/plants12010047
PMID:36616177
Behavioral evolution accompanying host shifts in cactophilic Drosophila larvae Coleman JM, Benowitz KM, Jost AG, Matzkin LM Ecol Evol 11-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC6065329
doi:10.1002/ece3.4209
PMID:30073056
Preadult life history variation determines adult transcriptome expression Etges WJ, de Oliveira C, Rajpurohit S, Gibbs AG Mol Ecol 01-Feb-2016
PMCID:PMC4738099
doi:10.1111/mec.13505
PMID:26615085
Deciphering life history transcriptomes in different environments Etges WJ, Trotter MV, de Oliveira CC, Rajpurohit S, Gibbs AG, Tuljapurkar S Mol Ecol 31-Dec-2014
PMCID:PMC4286481
doi:10.1111/mec.13017
PMID:25442828
Functional genomic and phenotypic responses to desiccation in natural populations of a desert drosophilid Rajpurohit S, Oliveira CC, Etges WJ, Gibbs AG Mol Ecol 18-Mar-2013
PMCID:PMC4032119
doi:10.1111/mec.12289
PMID:23505972

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