Acanthocereus horridus Britton & Rose
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1909
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 80 - Central America
label: Collector
content: F. Eichlam
notes: label: Notes
content: Photographs and pressed specimens of flowers and fruits, probably made from cultivated plants; labeled as F. Eichlam [s.n.] 1909, but with "09.195" [=greenhouse accession number]. Typification of this name unclear but several elements involved, including specimens made from cultivated plants. Protologue, "Collected in Guatemala by F. Eichlam in 1909 (New York Botanical Garden No. 34788). It has frequently flowered in cultivation, both at Washington and at New York. Here we are disposed to refer E.W. Nelson's plant from San Juan Guichicovi, Oaxaca, Mexico, collected June 21 to 24, 1895 (No. 2729). Figure 181 shows a part of a joint of the type specimen." [Two specimens at NY are annotated as "type", one apparently the original wild-collected specimen and one from cultivation, "flowered 1914"; two specimens at US are presumably original material, i.e., syntypes?]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Guatemala, Central America - Neotropics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Botany
label: See more items in
content: Flowering plants and ferns
label: See more items in
content: Type Register
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Acanthocereus horridus Britton & Rose
label: Published Name
content: Acanthocereus tetragonus (L.) Hummelinck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 00048395
label: USNM Number
content: 2976692
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Britton, N. L., Rose, J. N. 1920.
label: Type Status
content: Syntype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Dicotyledonae Caryophyllales Cactaceae Cactoideae