◊ Contr. US Nat. Herb. 12:431 (1909)
◊◊ Cereus pteranthus Lk ex Dietr - Allg. Gartenz. 2(27):209 (1834)
Cereus nycticalus Lk ex Dietr - Verh. Ver. Beförd. Gartenb. 10:372 (1834)
Cereus brevispinulus SD - Hort. Dyck. 339 (1834)
Cereus boeckmannii Otto - in: Cact. Hort. Dyck. 217 (1850)
Cereus kunthianus Hort. Berol. ex SD - Cact. Hort. Dyck. 217 (1850)
Cereus irradians Lem - Hort. 11 Misc. 74 (1864)
Cereus eriophorus Griseb - Cat. Pl. Cub. 116 non Pfeiff 1837 (1866)
Selenicereus boeckmannii (O ex SD)Br&R - Contr. US Nat. Herb. 12:429 (1909)
Selenicereus kunthianus (Hort. Berol. ex SD) Br&R - Contr. US Nat. Herb. 12:430 (1909)
Cereus vaupelii Wgt - Monatschr. Kakteenk. 22:106 (1912)
Selenicereus brevispinus Br&R - Cact. 2:201 (1920)
Cereus brevispinus (Br&R)Berg - Kakteen 113 (1929)
Selenicereus vaupelii (Wgt)Berg - Kakteen 114 (1929)
Selenicereus grandiflorus irradians (Lem)Borg - Cacti 206 (1951)
- Stems up to 5 cm thick, blue green. Ribs 4-6, stout. Spines 1-4, 1-3 mm
long, conical. Flower 25-30 cm long, strongly scented. Ovary with long white
hairs and spines. Outer petals linear. Inner petals white, yellow beneath,
linear-spatulate. Filaments greenish to cream. Style green yellow.
Fruit globose, red, 6-7 cm diameter.
- Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Mexico: Hidalgo, Oaxaca, ?Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, ?Campeche.
Cact. 2:200, 201', plate 38
Cact. 2:202, plate 36 (S. boeckmannnii)
Succulenta 48(3):33"; 85(5):230"
Backeberg 2:785
Backeberg 2:786, 787 (S. boeckmannnii)
KuaS 11((4):49-53; 26(4):91", (6):133; 22(4):70"; 27(6):0"
Bravo 1:462, 469, 470"
Bravo 1:462, 471, 472", 473" (S. boeckmannnii)
Bradleya 7:91
Cact. 2:201, 202" (S. brevispinus)
Backeberg 2:783, 784", 785" (S. brevispinus)
Cact. 2:201' (S. kunthianus)
Backeberg 2:786 (S. kunthianus)
Bradleya 7:91 (S. kunthianus)
Haseltonia 9:78
Cact. Syst. Init. 17:43
NCL 263"
EPIG 10(2):26"