Plant Details

Accepted name:: Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Mart. ex Pfeiff.) Console [Cactaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

No non-scientific names for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cereus aquicaulensis Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 90 (1837).
Cereus garambello Haage ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cakteenk.: 433 (1846).
Cereus geometrizans Mart. ex Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 90 (1837).
Cereus geometrizans var. pugionifer (Lem.) Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 2: 48 (1849).
Cereus geometrizans var. quadrangularispinus Lem. ex Labour. Monogr. Cact.: 367 (1853).
Cereus gladiator Otto & A.Dietr. Allg. Gartenzeitung 6: 34 (1838).
Cereus gladiator var. geometrizans Monv. Cat. 1846: ? (1846).
Cereus pugionifer Lem. Cact. Aliq. Nov.: 30 (1838).
Cereus pugionifer var. quadrangulispinus Lem. ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 395 (1846).
Myrtillocactus geometrizans f. cristatus P.V.Heath Calyx 2: 105 (1992).
Myrtillocactus geometrizans var. grandiareolatus (Bravo) Backeb. Cactac.: Handb. Kakteenk. 4: 3267 (1960).
Myrtillocactus geometrizans f. hintonii W.A.Fitz Maur. Cact. Suc. Mex. 34: 89 (1989).
Myrtillocactus geometrizans var. pugionifera (Lem.) Console Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 1: 10 (1897).
Myrtillocactus grandiareolatus Bravo Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 3: 16 (1932).
Myrtillocactus hertrichii Houghton J. Cact. Succ. Soc. Amer. 1: 136 (1930).
Myrtillocactus pugionifer (Lem.) A.Berger Kakteen: 160 (1929).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Myrtillocactus geometrizans	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Mart. ex Pfeiff.) Console	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Mart.) Console	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)

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