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Selenicereus anthonyanus

Anthony's Rick-rack

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Anthony's Rick-rack, St. Anthony's Rick-rack, Rick-rack Cactus; Ric-rac Cactus, Fishbone Cactus, Zig-zag Cactus

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Mexico

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised; Land, lowlands, gardens

KEY FEATURES: Hanging epiphyte to 2m. STEM to 100x15cm, green, flat, 2-winged, deeply lobed; 3 short spines in axils between lobes. FLOWER nocturnal, fragrant, funnel-like, to 15cmØ; petals outer purple, inner yellow.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Epiphyllum anguliger, with the same English names, has white petals.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Selenicereus anthonyanus (Alexander)
SYNONYMS: Cryptocereus anthonyanus [O]; Epiphyllum anthonyanus

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); CARYOPHYLLIDAE; Caryophyllales; CACTACEAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, Dolly Baker garden, Nikao, 2000, tentative ID GMcC 12/2003.

References:
p.255 Hortus 3rd
p.340 Royal Hort. Soc. Index of Garden Plants
p.282 Tropica

Data Update History (information):
zB03b, zD03b

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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