⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-2711937, with some changes.

Cereus hexagonus (L.) Mill. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Cereus (family Cactaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (in review) which reports it as an accepted name with original publication details: Gard. Dict. ed. 8 1 1768.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:130283-1.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Acanthocereus thalassinus (Otto & A.Dietr.) Borg	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cactus hexagonus L.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cactus octogonus Page ex Steud.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cephalocereus perlucens (K.Schum.) Borg	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus horridus Otto ex Pfeiff.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus horridus var. alatosquamatus Werderm.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus karstenii Salm-Dyck	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus lepidotus Salm-Dyck	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus longiflorus Alexander	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus perlucens K.Schum.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cereus thalassinus Otto & A.Dietr.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Pilocereus perlucens (K.Schum.) Werderm.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)
Pilosocereus perlucens (K. Schum.) Byles & G.D. Rowley	Synonym		TRO