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Pilosocereus gounellei


Common Name(s): Xique-Xique
Synonym(s): Pilocereus gounellei, Cephalocereus gounellei, Cereus gounellei, Pseudopilocereus gounellei, Pilocereus setosus, Cephalocereus zehntneri, Cereus zehntneri, Pilosocereus zehntneri, Pseudopilocereus zehntneri, Pseudopilocereus superfloccosus, Pilosocereus superfloccosus, Pilosocereus braunii
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Cereeae
Distribution: Brazil (South America)
Habit: Shrubby
Flower: WhiteEncounterability: Common Worldwide
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Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Habitat in Bahia - Brazil

Photographer: Gilberto Coster
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Morro de Chapeu - Brazil

Photographer: Gerard Ardisson

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Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Morro de Chapeu - Brazil

Photographer: Gerard Ardisson

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Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Gerard Ardisson's Private Collection

Photographer: Gerard Ardisson

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Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Pernambuco state - Brazil

Photographer: Ana Taemi
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Bahia - Brazil

Photographer: Ana Taemi
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Pernambuco state - Brazil

Photographer: Ana Taemi
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Bahia Brazil

Photographer: Adilson Peres
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Bahia Brazil

Photographer: Adilson Peres
Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei
Picture taken at: Bahia Brazil

Photographer: Adilson Peres

Pilosocereus gounellei subsp. zehntneri


Common Name(s): Xique-Xique
Synonym(s): Pilocereus gounellei, Cephalocereus gounellei, Cereus gounellei, Pseudopilocereus gounellei, Pilocereus setosus, Cephalocereus zehntneri, Cereus zehntneri, Pilosocereus zehntneri, Pseudopilocereus zehntneri, Pseudopilocereus superfloccosus, Pilosocereus superfloccosus, Pilosocereus braunii
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Cereeae
Distribution: Brazil (South America)
Habit: Shrubby-Treelike
Flower: WhiteEncounterability: Unusual in Collections
Original Description: The Cactaceae 2 p.35 - Britton & Rose (1920)
Low, much branched, and spreading; branches 3 to 4 cm in diameter, about 9-ribbed, more or less tubercled; areoles 1 to 2 cm apart, long-hairy when young; spines often 30 or more, only slightly spreading, all acicular and bright yellow, the centrals similar to the radials or a little longer, the longer ones 3 to 4 cm long; flowering areoles producing with the flowers long tufts of white wool; flowers slender, tubular, 6 to 7 cm long, white to light cream-colored; inner perianth-segments oblong, obtuse; style slender, glabrous, cone-shaped at base; ovary naked.
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Pilosocereus gounellei
P. gounellei subsp. zehntneri
Picture taken at: Gerard Ardisson's Private Collection

Photographer: Gerard Ardisson

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