View source for Peniocereus striatus

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Peniocereus striatus
|accepted_authority=(Brandegee) Buxbaum
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. Krainz et al., Kakteen
|place=62: CIIa. 1975
|year=1975
}}
|common_names=Jacamatraca;cardoncillo;gearste m cactus
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cereus striatus
|authority=Brandegee
|rank=species
|publication_title=Zoë
|publication_place=2: 19. 1891
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cereus diguetii
|authority=F. A. C. Weber
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Neoevansia diguetii
|authority=(F. A. C. Weber) W. T. Marshall
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Neoevansia striata
|authority=(Brandegee) Sánchez-Mejorada
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Peniocereus diguetii
|authority=(F. A. C. Weber) Backeberg
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wilcoxia diguetii
|authority=(F.A.C.W eber) Diguet & Guillaumin
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wilcoxia striata
|authority=(Brandegee) Britton & Rose
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Peniocereus;Peniocereus striatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Peniocereus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Peniocereus striatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 156
|treatment_page=page 157
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> suberect to sprawling, very inconspicuous. <b>Roots</b> 12 or more, ending in sweet potato-like swellings, 10–15 × 4–7 cm. <b>Stems</b> greenish brown to brown, branched, 25–75(–100) cm, distally 6 mm diam., at midlength ca. 6 mm diam.; wood hollow, solid-surfaced cylinders, proximally 3–7 mm diam.; ribs 6–9, flat-topped to 2 mm broad, narrowing toward sinus, 0.5 mm deep, separated by narrow grooves; areoles 5–20 mm apart along ribs, circular, 1 mm diam. <b>Spines</b> 5–12 per areole, yellowish white, some with black tips, nearly acicular, weak and easily broken off, 1.5–4 mm; radial spines encircling central spines, abaxial 3 longest, appressed, scurfy when young; central spines 2–3 porrect. <b>Flowers</b>: nocturnal, 7–10 cm; scales of flower tubes green-purple to reddish; outer tepals reddish to green-purple; inner tepals white to lightly tinted rose, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2 cm, attenuate to apiculate; stamens 1 cm; anthers pale lemon yellow, 1.5–2 mm; style yellow-white, 6 cm; stigma lobes 9, yellowish white. <b>Fruits</b> scarlet, pyriform, 40–50 × 25 mm, with bristlelike spines. <b>Seeds</b> 1 × 0.8 mm; testa pitted near hilum.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Sonoran Desert, flats, small hills
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Baja California Sur;Sinaloa;Sonora).
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name=Peniocereus striatus
|authority=(Brandegee) Buxbaum
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cereus diguetii;Neoevansia diguetii;Neoevansia striata;Peniocereus diguetii;Wilcoxia diguetii;Wilcoxia striata
|basionyms=Cereus striatus
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Sonoran Desert, flats, small hills
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Baja California Sur;Sinaloa;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. Krainz et al., Kakteen
|publication year=1975
|special status=Illustrated
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Peniocereus
|species=Peniocereus striatus
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