Taxonomic account

Cereus mortensenii

Cereus mortensenii (Croizat) D.R.Hunt & N.P.Taylor

Name accepted in Plants of the World Online. [2-WWW]

SpeciesAccount scope · nomenclature

Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Cereus
Ranga: Species
Genus list verification: 11 October 2026 [2-WWW]

Names in the literature

Synonyms and spelling variants linked to the accepted name in WCVP 16, including updates to the genus list. [27-WWW] [2-WWW]

Pilocereus mortensenii Croizat
Pilosocereus gruberi Schatzl & H.Till
Pilosocereus mortensenii (Croizat) Backeb.
Praepilosocereus mortensenii (Croizat) Guiggi
Subpilocereus mortensenii (Croizat) Trujillo & Marisela Ponce

Nomenclatural basis

The genus's species list was checked in POWO on 11 October 2026. Authorship and links between older names were compared with WCVP 16, a snapshot from 4 June 2026. [27-WWW] [2-WWW] [2-WWW]

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