Taxonomic account

Echinocereus acifer

Echinocereus acifer (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Haage

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

SpeciesAccount scope · nomenclature

Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Echinocereus
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]

Cereus acifer Otto ex Salm-Dyck
Echinocereus acifer subsp. acifer
Echinocereus acifer subsp. tubiflorus W.Rischer
Echinocereus acifer subsp. ventanensis W.Rischer
Echinocereus acifer var. brevispinulus Jacobi
Echinocereus acifer var. diversispinus K.Schum.
Echinocereus acifer var. durangensis K.Schum.
Echinocereus acifer var. tenuispinus Jacobi
Echinocereus acifer var. trichacanthus Hildm.
Echinocereus polyacanthus var. densus (Regel) N.P.Taylor
Echinocereus triglochidiatus subsp. acifer (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) U.Guzmán
Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. acifer (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Bravo
Echinopsis valida var. densa Regel

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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