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Pilosocereus jamaicensis is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica. It was first described in 2019. It has also been treated as a subspecies of Pilosocereus polygonus, P. polygonus subsp. jamaicensis.
Pilosocereus jamaicensis is native to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica. It has been suggested that plants found in the Cayman Islands may be a distinct species; those from western Cayman Brac and Little Cayman appear to have lost their silky hairs by the time flowers and fruits mature, whereas those from eastern Cayman Brac have not. In Jamaica, populations are found on the northern and southern coasts as well as in the centre.
Pilosocereus albisummus · Pilosocereus alensis · Pilosocereus armatus · Pilosocereus arrabidae · Pilosocereus aureispinus · Pilosocereus aurisetus · Pilosocereus azulensis · Pilosocereus brasiliensis · Pilosocereus brevispinus · Pilosocereus brooksianus · Pilosocereus catalani · Pilosocereus catimbauensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilosocereus jamaicensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
