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Nyctocereus serpentinus kaynak görseli

Mexican night-bloom cereus

Nyctocereus serpentinus

Nyctocereus serpentinus (Lag. & Rodr.) Britton & Rose is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1

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

Its recorded native range/source remark is MXEAG, MXECU, MXEGU, QLDCS, MXNBS, MXSMI, MXSJA, MXSCL, AUSTRALASIA, MXCDF, NORTHERNAMERICA, MXE_DU; Mexico.1

POWO records the plant context as scrambling succulent subshrub or shrub, 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. "Nyctocereus serpentinus (Lag. & Rodr.) Britton & Rose". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:171152-2 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Nyctocereus serpentinus". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/7280516 ↩
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Mexico

Automatically collected source range/note: MXE_AG, MXE_CU, MXE_GU, QLD_CS, MXN_BS, MXS_MI, MXS_JA, MXS_CL, AUSTRALASIA, MXC_DF, NORTHERN_AMERICA, MXE_DU; Mexico.