Taxon: Peniocereus greggii (Engelm.) Britton & Rose

Species on the following lists:

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

See also subordinate taxa:

• Peniocereus greggii var. greggii (no accessions)
• Peniocereus greggii var. transmontanus (no accessions)

Common names:

• Arizona queen-of-the-night   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• deer-horn cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• desert night-blooming cereus   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• night-blooming cereus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• sweet potato-cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• reina de la noche   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• saramatraca   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• 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 - New Mexico [s.], Texas [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sonora, Zacatecas

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. (Cact Fam)
• Britton, N. L. & J. N. Rose. 1937. The Cactaceae, descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. (Cact Britton & Rose)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Pinkava, D. J. 1995. Cactaceae, part 1. Cactus Family: the cereoid cactus. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. 29:10.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Peniocereus greggii.

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

Synonyms:

• Cereus greggii Engelm. [≡ Peniocereus greggii var. greggii]
  
• Cereus greggii var. transmontanus Engelm. [≡ Peniocereus greggii var. transmontanus]
  

Check other databases for Peniocereus greggii (Engelm.) 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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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