Taxon: Selenicereus spinulosus (DC.) Britton & Rose

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Species on the following lists:

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

Common names:

• vine-like moonlight cactus   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• småtaggig nattkaktus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed14)
  

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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)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Veracruz

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada.
• Britton, N. L. & J. N. Rose. 1937. The Cactaceae, descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 2:207.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Selenicereus spinulosus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Selenicereus spinulosus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Selenicereus spinulosus.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cereus spinulosus DC. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Selenicereus spinulosus (DC.) Britton & Rose:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Selenicereus spinulosus cultivars
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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