Talk:Selenicereus

Doubtful species

There's a lot of 'probably's in the descriptions of some of the species in this article. Arguably, if it is not certain, then it should be removed. Imc 19:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lord's Supper?

Isn't this also called a Lord's Supper Cactus??? Help me if you can!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.76.13.166 (talk) 23:02, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Needs review by Cactaceae systematist

Statements such as "The species is close to some species in the genus Weberocereus" make no sense. If that is the case, then Selenicereus is polyphyletic and the species in question is misclassified and needs to be moved to the genus Weberocereus. All species in a genus are by definition more closely related to all other species in that genus than they to any other organism. This page is in need of review by a plant systematist with expertise in the Cactaceae. I know a couple, will see if I can get one or both to look over this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ojalaquellueva (talk • contribs) 16:26, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Species list

The species list is unsourced. If I try to source it by, for example, Plants of the World Online, I get a substantially different list, since it accepts Strophocactus as a separate genus. The newly added Selenicereus wittii is treated as Strophocactus wittii.

A source for the list needs to be provided. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:50, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As an addendum, the separation of Strophocactus is strongly supported in doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.327.1.1. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:55, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article title

A straight Google search gave me 25,300 hits for "moonlight cactus" and about 1,200,000 for "selenicereus". Right now, Google ngrams don't produce any hits for "moonlight cactus", capitalized or not. (There are also issues of application caused by the recent merger of Hylocereus into Selenicereus, which means that names used for the narrower genus may not be appropriate for the broader one.) So I'm going to move the article. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:50, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In further support of the move, when I checked 'Pages that link to "Selenicereus"' afterwards to see if any wikilinks needed changing, there were no in-article links to Moonlight cactus. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:24, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]