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December 2023

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Echinocereus polyacanthus Engelm.

This species name was first published in Mem. Tour N. Mexico: 104. 1848.

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0000661430.

Synonyms of Echinocereus polyacanthus Engelm.

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Cereus leeanus Hook. in Bot. Mag. 75: t. 4417. 1849. wfo-0000597290
Cereus pleiogonus Labour. Monogr. Cactaceae: 317. 1853. wfo-0000597522
Cereus polyacanthus Engelm. Pl. Fendler.: 51. 1849. wfo-0000597526
Echinocereus acifer var. diversispinus K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 287. 1897–1899. wfo-0000661135
Echinocereus leeanus (Hook.) Lem. Cactées: 57. 1868. wfo-0000661326
Echinocereus leeanus var. multicostatus K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 289. 1897–1899. wfo-0000661327
Echinocereus marksianus Fritz Schwarz in: Backeberg, C., Kakteenlex.: 124. 1966. wfo-0000661349
Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. polyacanthus (Engelm. ex Wisl.) L.D.Benson in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 253. 1944. wfo-0000661581
Echinocereus triglochidiatus subsp. polyacanthus (Engelm.) U.Guzmán in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 16: 17. 2003. wfo-0000661582
Echinocereus durangensis var. nigrispinus Rümpler Handb. Cacteenk.: 800. 1885. wfo-0000738824
Echinocereus durangensis var. rufispinus Rümpler Handb. Cacteenk.: 800. 1885. wfo-0000738825
Echinocereus acifer var. durangensis K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 287. 1897–1899. wfo-0000738929
Echinocereus durangensis Rümpler Handb. Cacteenk.: 800. 1885. wfo-0000745111
Echinocereus leeanus (Hook.) Lemaire in Forster Handb. Cacteenk. (ed. 2) 828 1885 Link to external nomenclature reference wfo-0001288541
Echinocereus pleiogonus (Labour.) Croucher in Garden (London) 13: 290. 1878. wfo-0001288553