Mitrocereus militaris

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Echinocereeae
Genus: Mitrocereus
Species:

• Mitrocereus militaris (Audot) Bravo ex Buxb., Bot. Stud. Heft 12 (Entwickl. Trib. Pachycereae) 54, 101. (1961)

• Basionym
  • Cereus militaris Audot, Rev. Hort. [Paris]. ser. 2, 4: 307. (1845)
• Homotypic
  • Backebergia militaris (Audot) Bravo, Cact. Suc. Mex. 6(4): 90. (1961) nom. inval.
  • Backebergia militaris (Audot) Bravo ex Sánchez-Mej., Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 45: 174. (1973)
  • Cephalocereus militaris (Audot) H.E.Moore, Baileya 19(4): 165. 1975.
  • Pachycereus militaris (Audot) D.R.Hunt, Bradleya 5: 93. 1987.
  • Pilocereus militaris (Audot) Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 2, 40. 1850.
• Heterotypic
  • Backebergia chrysomallus (Lem.) Bravo, Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 24: 231. 1954.
  • Cephalocereus chrysomallus (Lem.) K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., 3 teil, 6(a) abt. 182. 1894.
  • Cereus militaris var. californicus K.Schum., Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. 85. 1897.
  • Cereus chrysomallus (Lem.) Lem., Monogr. Cact. 276. 1853.
  • Cereus chrysomallus (Lem.) Hemsl., Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 1: 541. 1879, comb. superfl.
  • Mitrocereus chrysomallus (Lem.) Backeb., Jahrb. Deutsch. Kakteen-Ges. 1941(2): 48. 1942.
  • Mitrocereus chrysomallus (Audot) Bravo ex Buxb., Bot. Stud. 12: 54. 1961, comb. superfl.
  • Pachycereus chrysomallus (Lem.) Britton & Rose, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 421, pl. 66. 1909.
  • Pilocereus chrysomallus Lem., Fl. des Serres 3: sub t. 242. (1847)
    

Note: This plant is known by three alternative names - see Discussion Page for more details. However, this combination is correct based upon priority under ICN Art 11]

• Buxbaum, F. (1961) Bot. Stud. Heft 12 (Entwickl. Trib. Pachycereae) 54, 101.

• Arias, S. & Terrazas, T. 2009. Taxonomic revision of Pachycereus (Cactaceae). Systematic Botany 34(1): 68–83. DOI: 10.1600/036364409787602384 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Franco-Estrada, D., Sánchez, D., Terrazas, T. & Arias Montes, S. 2021. Phylogenetic analysis of Peniocereus (Cactaceae, Echinocereeae) based on five chloroplast DNA markers. Brazilian Journal of Botany 44(4): 903–916. DOI: 10.1007/s40415-021-00774-0 Reference page. 

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Mitrocereus militaris in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 June 5. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2025. Mitrocereus militaris. Published online. Accessed: June 5 2025. Reference page.
• Korotkova, N. et al. 2025. Mitrocereus militaris in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2025 June 5. Reference page. 
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Mitrocereus militaris in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

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