Taxonomic account

Echinocereus knippelianus

Echinocereus knippelianus Liebner

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 knippelianus (Liebner) Orcutt
Echinocereus knippelianus subsp. kaplani Halda & Sladk.
Echinocereus knippelianus subsp. kruegeri (Glass & R.A.Foster) Glass
Echinocereus knippelianus subsp. reyesii (A.B.Lau) W.Blum & Mich.Lange
Echinocereus knippelianus var. kruegeri Glass & R.A.Foster
Echinocereus knippelianus var. reyesii A.B.Lau

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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