Acanthocereus castellae
Acanthocereus castellae
Acanthocereus castellae
Acanthocereus castellae (Sánchez-Mej.) Lodé is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1
The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Acanthocereus.12
Its recorded native range/source remark is MEXICO, MXSNA, MXS, MXSMI, MXSJA, MXSCL, MXSGR, MXSOA, NORTHERN_AMERICA; Mexico (Jalisco to Guerrero).1
POWO records the plant context as scrambling succulent subshrub or shrub, desert or dry shrubland.1
This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.
References
- Plants of the World Online. "Acanthocereus castellae (Sánchez-Mej.) Lodé". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77142332-1 ↩
- GBIF Secretariat. "Acanthocereus castellae". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/10882912 ↩
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