Praecereus

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
Genus:
Species: P. euchlorus – P. saxicola

Praecereus Buxb. (1968)

Type species: Praecereus smithianus (Britton & Rose) Buxb. (1968) vide Praecereus euchlorus subsp. smithianus (Britton & Rose) N.P.Taylor, Cactaceae Consensus Init. 3: 10. (1997)

Heterotypic
- Monvillea Britton & Rose, Cact. 2.: 21 (1920)
- × Prillea M.H.J.van der Meer, Cact. Phantast. 2019(4)-1: 4. (2019)

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Southern America Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Hunt, D. 2016. CITES Cactaceae Checklist, ed. 3: 1–174. PDF. Reference page.
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Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Praecereus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 Apr 08. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Praecereus. Published online. Accessed: Apr 08 2021. Reference page.
Korotkova, N. et al. 2021. Praecereus in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 02. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2021. Praecereus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 Apr 2021. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Praecereus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Apr 08. Reference page.