Cereeae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Cereeae
Subtribus: Cereinae – Rebutiinae – Trichocereinae
Unresolved Nothogenera: × Echinobutia – × Timmermansara
Name

Cereeae Salm-Dyck (1840)

Type genus: Cereus Mill.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Melocacteae Salm-Dyck, Allg. Gartenzeitung 8: 58. 1840.
Type genus: Melocactus Link & Otto, nom. cons.
Monvilleeae F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 1: 230. 1979.
Type genus: Monvillea Britton & Rose
Trichocereeae Buxb., Madroño 14(6): 189. 1958.
Type genus: Trichocereus (A. Berger) Riccob.

References

Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, J. zu 1840. Allg. Gartenzeitung 8: 58.
Nyffeler, R. & Eggli, U. 2010. A farewell to dated ideas and concepts: molecular phylogenetics and a revised suprageneric classification of the family Cactaceae. Schumannia 6: 109–149. Full text (PDF). Reference page.

Cereeae are a tribe of cactus belonging to the Cactoideae subfamily.
Genera

Arrojadoa
Brasilicereus
Cereus
Cipocereus
Coleocephalocereus
Melocactus
Micranthocereus
Pilosocereus
Praecereus
Stephanocereus
Uebelmannia

References
Soffiatti, P.; Angyalossy, V. Anatomy of Brazilian Cereeae (subfamily Cactoideae, Cactaceae): Arrojadoa Britton & Rose, Stephanocereus A. Berger and Brasilicereus Backeberg. Acta Botanica Brasilica, v. 21, n. 4, 2007.