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Selenicereus monacanthus, synonym Hylocereus monacanthus, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. [2] It is native to parts of Central America and South America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela). [2] [1]
Hylocereus is a former genus of epiphytic cacti, often referred to as night-blooming cactus (though the term is also used for many other cacti). Several species previously placed in the genus have large edible fruits , which are known as pitayas , pitahayas or dragonfruits.
In 2017, the genus Hylocereus was brought into synonymy with Selenicereus. ... D.R.Hunt(syn. incl. H. lemairei, H. monacanthus) Stems gray-green without horny margins ...
Selenicereus was expanded to include part of Weberocereus and the whole of Hylocereus, which was nested within it. Strophocactus wittii, which had been included in Selenicereus, was excluded from the Hylocereeae altogether, along with the genus Deamia, containing two species that had been placed in either Strophocactus or Selenicereus.
Selenicereus undatus, the white-fleshed pitahaya, is a species of the genus Selenicereus (formerly Hylocereus) in the family Cactaceae [1] and is the most cultivated species in the genus. It is used both as an ornamental vine and as a fruit crop – the pitahaya or dragon fruit .
The name Hylocereus costaricensis has been treated as synonymous with Hylocereus polyrhizus; [13] [14] however, H. polyrhizus is regarded by other sources as a synonym of Selenicereus monacanthus. The relationship between S. costaricensis and S. monacanthus, and in particular whether they are separate species, requires further study. [8]
Hylocereus (of which Hylocereus undatus is the most frequently cultivated outdoors and is the main source of the commercial fruit crop, dragonfruit) Monvillea; Nyctocereus (usually Nyctocereus serpentinus) Peniocereus (Peniocereus greggii, the best known, is strictly a desert plant which grows from an underground tuber and is infrequently ...
Hylocereus megalanthus (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) Ralf Bauer Mediocactus megalanthus (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) Britton & Rose Selenicereus megalanthus , synonym Hylocereus megalanthus , [ 1 ] is a cactus species in the genus Selenicereus that is native to northern South America , where it is known, along with its fruit, by the name of pitahaya .