• Family : CACTACEAE
  (Cactus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NAG PHANI FAMILY / CACTUS FAMILY (नागफणी फैमिली / कैक्टस फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CACTACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Common name : Columnar Cactus
• Vernacular name : Chadhurakalli (Telugu); Poochamullu (Malayalam); Sippaai kathaalai (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Garden plant. In plains to 400m. Introduced, now runs wild in wasteland where it forms impenetrable thickets.
• Flower, Fruit : March-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Puri district, Balasore district, Ganjam district
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cereus pterogonus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Line Drawings