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This name is a synonym of Pilosocereus royenii .
The record derives from WCSP (in review) (data supplied on ) which reports it as a synonym with original publication details: Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 276 1843.
This name record (from WCSP (in review)) was not included in version 1 of The Plant List. It is possible the same name was included from a different data source, to check this you can search for Cereus royenii in version 1 of The Plant List.