Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Cactaceae > Acanthocereus > Acanthocereus tetragonusAcanthocereus tetragonus (triangle cactus)Synonyms: Acanthocereus acutangulus; Acanthocereus baxaniensis; Acanthocereus colombianus; Acanthocereus floridanus (homotypic); Acanthocereus griseus; Acanthocereus horribarbis; Acanthocereus horridus; Acanthocereus occidentalis; Acanthocereus pentagonus; Acanthocereus pitajaya (homotypic); Acanthocereus princeps; Acanthocereus subinermis; Acanthocereus tetragonus var. micracanthus; Acanthocereus thalassinus; Cactus pentagonus; Cactus pitajaya; Cactus prismaticus (heterotypic); Cactus reptans (homotypic); Cactus tetragonus (homotypic); Cereus baxaniensis (homotypic); Cereus baxaniensis f. pellucidus; Cereus baxaniensis var. ramosus (homotypic); Cereus dussii; Cereus horribarbis (homotypic); Cereus horribilis; Cereus nitidus; Cereus pellucidus; Cereus pentagonus; Cereus pentagonus var. glaucus (homotypic); Cereus pitajaya; Cereus pitajaya var. variabilis; Cereus princeps (homotypic); Cereus prismaticus; Cereus ramosus; Cereus reptans (homotypic); Cereus tetragonus (homotypic); Cereus tetragonus var. major (homotypic); Cereus tetragonus var. minor; Cereus tetragonus var. ramosior; Cereus thalassinus; Cereus undulatus (heterotypic); Cereus variabilis (heterotypic); Cereus vasmerii Language: Spanish Acanthocereus tetragonus is a species of cactus that is native to southern Florida and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and northern South America. Common names include night-blooming cereus, barbed-wire cactus, sword-pear, dildo cactus, triangle cactus, and Órgano-alado de pitaya (Spanish). It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Cactus tetragonus but was moved to the genus Acanthocereus in 1938 by Pieter Wagenaar Hummelinck. |
| Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Structure [1] | Vine |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 2Catagonus wagneri, John J. Mayer and Ralph M. Wetzel, Mammalian Species No. 259, pp. 1-5 (1986) ♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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