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Pilosocereus moritzianus
About
Pilosocereus moritzianus is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to Trinidad and Tobago and the Venezuelan Antilles in the Caribbean and to Venezuela in northern South America. It was first described in 1837 as Cereus moritzianus. It was subsequently placed in the genus Cephalocereus before being moved to Pilosocereus in 1957. It has also been treated as a subspecies of Pilosocereus lanuginosus, P. lanuginosus subsp. moritzianus.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pilosocereus moritzianus
- Slug
- pilosocereus-moritzianus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Pilosocereus
- Species
- moritzianus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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