Taxon: Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxb.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

See also subordinate taxa:

• Stenocereus thurberi subsp. littoralis (no accessions)
• Stenocereus thurberi subsp. thurberi (no accessions)

Common names:

• organ-pipe cactus   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Órgano marismeña   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• mehuelé   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• pitahauya   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  
• pitahaya dulce   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Spanish
  
• pitayo dulce   (Source: Cact Mex ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia; Cactus Mex)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. (Cact Fam)
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada. (Cact US Can)
• Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991 (Cact Mex) [mentions].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia) [= Marshallocereus thurberi].
• Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist. (CITES Cact L)
• Pinkava, D. J. 1995. Cactaceae, part 1. Cactus Family: the cereoid cactus. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. 29:11.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Stenocereus thurberi.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Stenocereus thurberi. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Cereus thurberi Engelm. [≡ Stenocereus thurberi subsp. thurberi]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Cereus thurberi var. littoralis K. Brandegee [≡ Stenocereus thurberi subsp. littoralis]
  
• Lemaireocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Britton & Rose [≡ Stenocereus thurberi subsp. thurberi]
  

Check other databases for Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxb.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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