Pilosocereus catingicola

(Gürke) Byles & G. D. Rowley 1957

2016, Brazil, Bahia

Surveys

2016, Brazil, Bahia, Tanhaçu, A&M 1429 Show on map

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Synonyms

Cephalocereus catingicola, Cereus catingicola*, Pilocereus catingicola, Pseudopilocereus catingicola, Pilosocereus catingicola ssp. catingicola, Pilocereus arenicola, Pilosocereus arenicola, Pilosocereus catingicola ssp. arenicola, Cephalocereus hapalacanthus, Pilocereus hapalacanthus, Pilosocereus hapalacanthus, Pseudopilocereus hapalacanthus, Pilosocereus catingicola ssp. hapalacanthus, Pilosocereus robustus, Pseudopilocereus robustus, Pilosocereus catingicola ssp. robustus, Pilocereus rupicola, Pilosocereus rupicola, Pseudopilocereus rupicola, Austrocephalocereus salvadorensis, Pilocereus salvadorensis, Pilosocereus salvadorensis, Pseudopilocereus salvadorensis, Pilosocereus catingicola ssp. salvadorensis, Pilocereus sergipensis, Pilosocereus sergipensis, Pseudopilocereus sergipensis
* Basionym

Distribution

Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe)

Conservation status

(1) Least Concern, LC

Comments

In the last lexicons (Hunt et al. 2006, text: 235; Anderson & Eggli 2011, 537-538, Hunt 2013, xxviii), Pilosocereus salvadorensis (Werdermann) Byles & G. D. Rowley is distinguished as Pilosocereus catingicola ssp. salvadorensis (Werdermann) Zappi within Pilosocereus catingicola (Gürke) Byles & G. D. Rowley), substantially for the greater number of ribs: (5-) 6-12 vs. 4-6 for ssp. catingicola. Actually, P. salvadorensis represents only the coastal populations of the dominant and widespread P. catingicola that in a natural sense propagates from the Caatinga ecological region, on a wide coastal band involving 6 Brazilian states (i.e. Alagoas, Bahia, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe) (Taylor and Zappi 2004, 312), with slight morphological variations, which in our opinion do not deserve to be recorded at a taxonomic level. For this reason we consider P. salvadorensis and P. catingicola ssp. salvadorensis both synonyms of P. catingicola. (Quoted from Anceschi & Magli 2021, 81)

Genus

Pilosocereus

Other species

aurisetus
catingicola
fulvilanatus
gounellei
magnificus
pachycladus
pentaedrophorus
zehntneri