Stenocereus (A.Berger) Riccob.

Stenocereus (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Cactaceae

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs, erect, arching, or procumbent, mostly branched from base. Roots adventitious if plant procumbent. Stems unsegmented, often more narrow at branch bases and where showing growth increments, green to bluish green [or whitish from surface wax or purple tinged from pigment], columnar, ribbed, [50-]100-500+ × [5-](9-)11-18[-20] cm; ribs 4-20, rounded, margins nearly flat to sinusoidal or strongly tuberculate, with transverse folds between areoles or not; areoles 0.5-2.5 cm apart, circular to horizontally elliptic, young hairs whitish or tan to reddish brown, aging darker; areolar glands present or absent; cortex mucilaginous or not, mucilage throughout and slippery or restricted to sacs in outer cortex, green to white or yellowish; pith mucilaginous or not, 1-8 cm wide. Spines to 28 per areole, hemispherically arranged, initially rose to magenta, becoming darker or fading to grayish white, relatively thin and brittle to stout and very hard; radial spines to 3.5 cm; central spines usually weakly defined or absent, sometimes broad and downward pointing, to 7.5 cm. Flowers diurnal or nocturnal, produced only once on areole [or not], terminal to lateral, funnelform [to tubular]; flower tubes2-11 cm; outer tepals with dark green to purplish centers but light margins, margins entire; inner tepals white to rose-red [or yellow]; ovary globose to barrel-shaped, similar to locule shape; scales persistent, reddish or green with red tips, small, triangular; hairs and spines often present; stigma lobes 5-15, inserted or exserted; nectar chamber open. Fruits indehiscent or sometimes splitting irregularly, dark red to purplish green or green, spheric [to ovoid], 30-100 mm, fleshy to juicy [or somewhat dry], bearing deciduous spine clusters; pulp red, special pigment cells present; floral remnant persistent or deciduous. Seeds brownish black or black, oblong to subspheric with oblique hilum, 0.7-3 mm, dull or rarely glossy; testa cells convex or nearly flat, with prominent to faint, raised waxy striations or not. x = 11.
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Images

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Distribution

Stenocereus world distribution map, present in United States of America

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WFO ID wfo-4000036481
COL ID 7MJ7
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Synonyms

Glandulicereus Rathbunia Cereus subg. Stenocereus Lemaireocereus subg. Isolatocereus x Rittellicereus Neogriseocereus Nigellicereus Griseocereus Griseocactus Stenocereus subg. Nigellicereus Hertrichocereus Machaerocereus Neolemaireocereus Ritterocereus Stenocereus

Lower taxons

Stenocereus griseus Stenocereus humilis Stenocereus pruinosus Stenocereus laevigatus Stenocereus queretaroensis Stenocereus zopilotensis Stenocereus alamosensis Stenocereus thurberi Stenocereus standleyi Stenocereus chrysocarpus Stenocereus beneckei Stenocereus chacalapensis Stenocereus eruca Stenocereus fricii Stenocereus gummosus Stenocereus kerberi Stenocereus martinezii Stenocereus montanus Stenocereus quevedonis Stenocereus stellatus Stenocereus treleasei Stenocereus heptagonus Stenocereus huastecorum Stenocereus yunckeri