Acanthocereus

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Acanthocereus (Engelm. ex A.Berger) Britton & Rose in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 432. 1909 sec. Korotkova & al. 2017

≡Cereus subsect. Acanthocereus Engelm. ex A.Berger in Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 16: 77. 1905 syn. sec. Korotkova & al. 2017

Type: Acanthocereus baxaniensis (Karw. ex Pfeiff.) Borg

=Peniocereus subg. Pseudoacanthocereus Sánchez-Mej. in Cact. Suc. Mex. 19: 38. 1974 syn. sec. Korotkova & al. 2017

Type: Cereus maculatus Weing.
Type: Peniocereus maculatus (Weing.) Cutak

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Acknowledgments

Revised by Salvador Arias, Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa & Héctor M. Hernández

Notes

The sister relationship of Peniocereus subg. Pseudoacanthocereus and Acanthocereus has been shown several times with high statistical support from plastid data (Nyffeler 2002; Arias & al. 2005; Korotkova & al. 2017). Based on these results, Acanthocereus is only monophyletic if it also includes Peniocereus subg. Pseudoacanthocereus. Therefore, a new circumscription of Acanthocereus now including the nine erstwhile Peniocereus subgen. Pseudoacanthocereus species was provided by Korotkova & al. (2017).A

Taxon standing

Category A. The genus is monophyletic based on a complete or very comprehensive phylogenetic study, and a phylogeny-based taxonomic synopsis was published.B

Bibliography

A. Arias, S. 2021: Revisions of Acanthocereus, Aporocactus, Astrophytum, Bergerocactus, Cephalocereus, Disocactus, Marshallocereus, Nyctocereus, Pachycereus, Peniocereus, Pereskiopsis, Selenicereus, Stenocereus, Strophocactus. – In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 251-270

B. Korotkova, N., Borsch, T. & Arias, S. 2017: A phylogenetic framework for the Hylocereeae (Cactaceae) and implications for the circumscription of the genera. – Phytotaxa 327(1): 1-46