Cereeae

Cereus hildmannianus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Cereeae
Subtribus: Cereinae – Rebutiinae – Trichocereinae

Unresolved Nothogenera: × Echinobutia – × Timmermansara

Name

Cereeae Salm-Dyck, Allg. Gartenzeit. 8: 58 (1840) (“Cereastreae”)

• Type genus: Cereus Mill.

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Melocacteae Salm-Dyck, Allg. Gartenzeitung 8: 58. 1840.
    • Type genus: Melocactus Link & Otto, nom. cons.
  • Monvilleeae F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 1: 230. 1979.
    • Type genus: Monvillea Britton & Rose
  • Trichocereeae Buxb., Madroño 14(6): 189. 1958.
    • Type genus: Trichocereus (A. Berger) Riccob.

References

• Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, J. zu 1840. Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 8: 58.
• Fantinati, M.R., Soffiatti, P. & Calvente, A. 2021. A New Phylogenetic Hypothesis for Cereinae (Cactaceae) Points to a Monophyletic Subtribe. Systematic Botany DOI: 10.1600/036364421X16312068417020 Reference page. 
• Nyffeler, R. & Eggli, U. 2010. A farewell to dated ideas and concepts: molecular phylogenetics and a revised suprageneric classification of the family Cactaceae. Schumannia 6: 109–149. Full text (PDF). Reference page. 

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