Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley
in habitat, Abaco Island, Bahamas, 2006
Family: Cactaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the West Indies (Cuba, Bahamas).
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Critically Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: For a recent taxonomic revision of this and other Caribbean
Pilosocereus, see
Franck et al. (2019). For a current review of
P. robinii, see the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Species Profile. See also our
Natives For Your Neighborhood website and Florida Natural Areas Inventory's
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the
Exploring Florida website. So records of this in South Florida may refer to
P. millspaughii.
Synonyms: P. bahamensis; Pilosocereus polygonus, misapplied.