Mirabella (plant)

Mirabella
Mirabella estevesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Mirabella
F.Ritter
Type species
Mirabella albicaulis
Species

See text.

Synonyms

Cereus subg. Mirabella (F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor

Mirabella is a former genus of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to Brazil. The genus was erected by Friedrich Ritter in 1979. It has been reclassified as the subgenus Mirabella of the genus Cereus. This taxonomic change is excepted by the Plants of the World Online.