Cactaceae
Epiphyllum

Epiphyllum phyllanthus (L.) Haw.

First published in Syn. Pl. Succ.: 197 (1812)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Central Mexico to NE. Argentina. It is a succulent epiphyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Assam

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Correa A., Mireya D. Galdames, Carmen Correa A., M. D., C. Galdames & M. S. de Stapf (2004). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá: 1-599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Monro, A.K., González, F., Santamaría, D., Chacón, O., Rodríguez, A., Solano, D. Zamora, N. & Correa, M. (2011). A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama. Phytotaxa 322: 1-283.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Sant'Ana Melhem, T., das Graças Lapa Wanderley, M., Ehlin Martins, S., Jung-Mendaçolli, S.L., Shepherd, G.J. & Kirizawa, M. (eds.) (2007). Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo 5: 1-476. Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo.
  • Soller, A., Soffiatti, P., Calvente, A. & Goldenberg, R. (2014). Cactaceae no estado do Paraná, Brasil. Rodriguésia 65: 201-219.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Véliz, M. (2008). Las Cactáceas de Guatemala: 1-129. Unidad de Investigación Herbario BIGU, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • GRIN National Genetic Resources Program http://www.ars-grin.gov in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Correa A., Mireya D. Galdames, Carmen Correa A., M. D., C. Galdames & M. S. de Stapf (2004). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá: 1-599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • GBIF (2008-2020). Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/.
  • Soller, A., Soffiatti, P., Calvente, A. & Goldenberg, R. (2014). Cactaceae no estado do Paraná, Brasil. Rodriguésia 65: 201-219.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Véliz, M. (2008). Las Cactáceas de Guatemala: 1-129. Unidad de Investigación Herbario BIGU, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • CITES (2021). Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2015). Identificación de las plantas útiles como Productos Forestales No Maderables del Bosque seco-Tropical en tres ventanas del Caribe colombiano. 1386 registros, aportados por: Garcia, H. (Contacto del Recurso), López Camacho, R. (Creador del recurso), Sarmiento Bernal, C. (Proveedor del metadatos). Espitia Palenci, L. (Autor), Gallego, B. (Punto de contacto), Aguilar Cano, J. (Curador), Mendoza, H. (Curador). Versión 2.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=rrbb_bst-caribe_plantae_2015
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 1, 2014 Zartman, C.E.; Mesquita, J.R.; Silva, K.M. [6402] Brazil K000543541 No
Jan 1, 2010 Henicka, G.S.; dos Reis, T.C.Y.; Henicka, T.S.; Piva, J.H. [271] Brazil K000543537 No
Jan 1, 2010 Henicka, G.S.; dos Reis, T.C.Y.; Henicka, T.S.; Piva, J.H. [271] Brazil K000543536 No
Jan 1, 2010 Henicka, G.S.; dos Reis, T.C.Y.; Henicka, T.S.; Piva, J.H. [271] Brazil K000543538 No
Jan 1, 1999 Zappi, D.C.; Amaral, M.C.E.; Costa, C.B.; Aona, L.; Bellinello, R. [356] Brazil K000542923 Yes
Bowles; Heywood [111] Venezuela K000101440 No
Prance; Silva [59288] Brazil K000101419 Yes
Bernacci; et al, L. [1342] Brazil K000101415 Yes
[F2486] Guyana K000101395 No
Leuenberger, B.; Silva Brito, H. [3104] Brazil K000013016 Yes
Irwin et al [27302] Brazil K000101401 No
[92] K000101455 No
Castellanos, A.; Taylor, N.; Zappi, D.C. [25802] Brazil K000013011 Yes
Souza, C., V.; Souza [9569] Brazil K000101418 No
[0] K000101454 No
Harley, R.M.; et al. [17037] Brazil K000013017 Yes
Verner [12397] Panama K000101436 No
Irwin; Soderstrom [5899] Brazil K000101402 Yes
Burchell [1001A] Brazil K000101408 Yes
Pereira; S., B.A. [1394] Brazil K000101405 Yes
Prance et al [24441] Brazil K000101403 No
Jenman [7254] Guyana K000101391 No
Fendler [371] K000101388 Yes
Woodrow [0] K000101460 No
Samuels [305] Suriname K000101426 No
Zardini, E.M. [46386] Paraguay K000100253 No
Heringer et al [168] Brazil K000101400 No
Horich [0] Ecuador K000101439 No
Baker; Simmonds [0] K000101384 Yes
Prance et al [24441] Brazil K000101404 Yes
Pittier [0] Guatemala K000101365 Yes
Anderson [10868] Brazil K000101406 Yes
Woolston [632] Paraguay K000101425 No
Jenman [7783] Guyana K000101429 No
Ek; Montfoort [301] Suriname K000101423 No
Lankester [0] Costa Rica K000101363 No
Sandoval [s.n.] El Salvador K000100101 No
Samuels [416] Suriname K000101428 No
Broadway [0] K000101386 Yes
E, Brown, N. [0] Mexico K000101367 Yes
Pereira Neto et al [274] Brazil K000101409 No
Yuncker; et al [8379] Honduras K000100182 No
Pittier [0] Guatemala K000101352 No
[0] K000101456 No
[0] K000101458 No
Irwin; Soderstrom [5477] Brazil K000101407 Yes
Zardini, E.M. [30177] Paraguay K000100218 No
Harley, R.M. [17037] Brazil K:SPC-43907.000 No
Gottsberger, G.; Posey [110-26183] Brazil K000101398 No
Sales de Melo, M.R.C.; Carvalho, M.; Guimaraes, F. [93] Brazil K000013013 No
Vargas [0] Peru K000101441 No
Pittier [228] Guatemala K000101355 No
Sintenis [4924] Puerto Rico K000101364 Yes
Jansen-Jacobs [2502] Guyana K000101396 No
Cid et al [1531] Brazil K000101399 No
Taylor, N.; Zappi, D.C. [1613] Brazil K000013015 Yes
Laurenio, A.; Maas, P.; Maas, H.; Oliveira, J. [255] Brazil K000013012 No
Steyermark [62157] Venezuela K000101433 No
Pittier [1117] Panama K000101437 No
Broadway [3142] K000101385 Yes
Harley; Souza [10110] Brazil K000101416 Yes
Prance et al [20588] Brazil K000101422 No
Delascio Chitty [2410] Venezuela K000101434 No
[0] K000101457 No
Broadway [3142] K000101389 Yes
Taylor, N.P.; Zappi, D.C.; Eggli [1477] Brazil K000101413 No
Yuncker; et al [8677] Honduras K000101354 No
Argent et al [6582] Brazil K000101421 Yes
Broadway [0] K000101387 Yes
Hugh-Jones [41] Suriname K000101427 No
[0] K000101459 No
Nogueira, P.E.; Richter, M. [741] Brazil K000035162 Yes
Richardson [945] K000101390 Yes
Rose [3362] K000101383 No
[0] K000101453 No
Sandwith [704] Guyana K000101393 No
Field [339] Venezuela K000100216 No
Nee [42872] Brazil K000101414 No
MacDougall, T.B. [A262] Mexico K000062684 No
Jansen-Jacobs et al [1762] Guyana K000101397 No
Hinton et al [5402] Mexico K000101368 Yes
Pittier [0] Guatemala K000101366 Yes
Sales de Melo, M.R.C. [138] Brazil K000013014 Yes
Prance et al [19224] Brazil K000101417 Yes
Williams [735] Bolivia K000100015 No
Cid Ferreira et al [6455] Brazil K000101411 Yes
Schipp [371] Belize K000101361 No
Bartlett [0] Belize K000101360 No
Lundell [557] Belize K000101353 No
Poole et al [1619] Brazil K000101410 No
Lehmann [0] Colombia K000101431 No
Clarke, D., H. [3912] Guyana K000035163 No
Harley et al [25426] Brazil K000101412 Yes
Zarucchi, J.L.; Balick, M.J. [1745] Colombia K000101438 No
Jenman [7254] Guyana K000101392 No
Birdsey [0] Honduras K000101362 No
Sagot [0] French Guiana K000101424 No
Delascio Chitty [2347] Venezuela K000101432 No
Ramos; Souza [138] Brazil K000101420 Yes
Sandwith [704] Guyana K000101394 No

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • Copyright applied to individual images

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • ColPlantA database
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