Taxon:
Stenocereus griseus (Haw.) Buxb.
Summary
Place of publication:
Bot. Stud. 12:100. 1961
Verified:
10/27/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family
- Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991
- CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource). URL: http://www.cites.org/eng/app/appendices.shtml
- Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezuela.
- Hunt, D. et al., eds. 2006. The new cactus lexicon
- Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist
- Pimienta-Barrios, E. & P. S. Nobel. 1994. Pitaya (Stenocereus spp., Cactaceae): an ancient and modern fruit crop of Mexico. Econ. Bot. 48:76-83. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Common names
Spanish
pitaya – pitaya de mayo –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Trinidad and Tobago | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | Mexico | | |
Native
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Trinidad and Tobago
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
Northern America
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | fruit | | Pimienta-Barrios, E. & P. S. Nobel. 1994. Pitaya (Stenocereus spp., Cactaceae): an ancient and modern fruit crop of Mexico. Econ. Bot. 48:76-83. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231 |
Human food | fruit | | Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991 |
Human food | fruit | | Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family |