Type : "9. Cactus (peruvianus) erectus longus suboctangularis: angulis obtusis.
Hort. cliff. 181[
182].
Hort. ups. 120.
Roy. lugdb. 279.
Cereus erectus, fructu rubro non spinoso. Herm.
par. 114.
Cereus pervianus spinosus, fructu rubro nucis magnitudine. Bauh.
pin. 458.
Euphorbii arbor cerei effigie. Lob. ic. 2.
p. 25.
Habitat in Jamaicae, Peru apricis aridis maritimis." [protologue].
Origine inconnue [côte du Venezuela ou Hispaniola, cultivé à Montpellier??], Lobel (LT: "
Euphorbii arbor Cerei effigie, sive
Peruvianus Cereus vulgi"
in Plantin [et non "Lobel"!],
Pl. Stirp. Icon., 2:
25. 1581 [désigné par Heath
in Calyx, 2: 70. 1992][voir aussi illustration originale avec texte
in Lobel,
Stirp. Advers. 453. 1571, et
in Lobel,
Pl. Stirp. Hist. 453. 1576]).
D'après
The Linnean Plant Name Typification Project: "Keisling (in Darwiniana 24: 444. 1982) provided a neotype for
Cereus peruvianus Mill. (1768). He did not regard this name as a new combination based on
Cactus peruvianus L. so did not typify the latter and, in fact, suggested that it should be rejected as a nomen dubium. Hunt & Taylor (
in Bradleya 10: 19. 1992), however, rejected this interpretation, and the name was formally typified by Heath."
