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Acanthocereus is a genus of cacti. Its species take the form of shrubs with arching or climbing stems up to several meters in height. The generic name is derived from the Greek word άκανθα ( acantha ), meaning spine, [ 3 ] and the Latin word cereus , meaning candle . [ 4 ]
Acanthocereus tetragonus, the sword pear, Browningia candelaris, [2] Carnegiea gigantea, the Saguaro, Cereus repandus - California and Florida; genus Corryocactus (also known as Erdisia), the tasty berrylike C. brevistylis, C. pulquiensis, and C. erectus; Coryphantha. C. robbinsorum and C. recurvata. genus Echinocereus ("Strawberry Cactus")
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.
Acanthocereus, which had been included in Hylocereeae by some earlier authors, but also in Echinocereeae, Pachycereeae and Phyllocacteae, was expanded to include Peniocereus subg. Pseudoacanthocereus, and restored to Hylocereeae. Aporocactus was separated again from Disocactus.
The classification of the family Cactaceae remains uncertain as of August 2023.Since the mid-1990s, the system produced by the International Cactaceae Systematics Group (ICSG) of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study has been used as the basis of many published classifications.
C. Calymmanthium; Cereus (plant) Cereus fernambucensis; Cereus haageanus; Cereus hildmannianus; Cereus phatnospermus; Chamaecereus; Chamaecereus saltensis; Cleistocactus
The Cactoideae are the largest subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae, and are widely distributed throughout the Americas.Cactaceae is the 5th most endangered plant or animal family evaluated globally by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. [1]
The 2011 study found the tribe Hylocereeae to be embedded within a wider Echinocereeae, but studies in 2017 and 2020 asserted the independence of the Hylocereeae, including within it two genera placed within Pachycereeae in earlier classifications: Acanthocereus and Pseudoacanthocereus (sunk into Strophocactus). [11] [12]