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Puerto Rico applecactus

Puerto Rico applecactus

Harrisia portoricensis

Harrisia portoricensis Britton is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1

The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Harrisia.12

Its recorded native range/source remark is PUEOO, CARIBBEAN, DOM, PUE, SOUTHERNAMERICA, DOM_OO; Dominican Rep. to Puerto Rico (incl. Mona I.).1

POWO records the plant context as Unknown, seasonally dry tropical.1

This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.

References

  1. Plants of the World Online. "Harrisia portoricensis Britton". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:133589-1 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Harrisia portoricensis". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/5384190 ↩
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Dominican Rep. to Puerto Rico (incl. Mona I.)

Automatically collected source range/note: PUE_OO, CARIBBEAN, DOM, PUE, SOUTHERN_AMERICA, DOM_OO; Dominican Rep. to Puerto Rico (incl. Mona I.).