''Cipocereus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

cacti A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Gree ...

from

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. These species were previously included in the genera ''

Pilosocereus ''Pilosocereus'' (from Latin, "hairy cereus") is a genus of cactus native to the Neotropics. Tree cactus is a common name for ''Pilosocereus'' species. The commonly cultivated '' Pilosocereus pachycladus'' ( syn. ''Pilosocereus azureus'') is a b ...

'' and ''

Cereus Cereus, waxy in Latin, may refer to: * ''Cereus'' (anemone), a genus of sea anemones in the family Sagartiidae * ''Cereus'' (plant), a genus of cacti (the family Cactaceae) * Ceroid cactus, any of a number of cacti with very elongated bodies, ...

''.

Species

Synonymy

The genus ''Floribunda''

F.Ritter Friedrich Ritter (9 May 1898 – 9 April 1989) was a German botanist who collected and described many species of cacti. ''Ritterocereus ''Stenocereus'' ( Gk. ''stenos'', narrow, L. ''cereus'', candle) is a genus of columnar or tree-like cacti ...

has been brought into synonymy with this genus.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q135980 Cactoideae Cactoideae genera