Autor: Fric • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928), leader of the Mexican revolution, and first president of the country, who was murdered on July 17th, 1928 during a banquet while celebrating his re-election (see portrait above, public domain). • DESCRIPTION A genus of small, subglobose to flattened, usually solitary, low growing plants, with the apex…
Autor: (Berger) Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY “Night Cereus” because the genus has nocturnal flowers. • DESCRIPTION A genus of bushy plants forming clumps of soft, erect cylindrical stems, climbing or pendulous, up to 6 m or more long, branching from the base, with tuberous roots. 10-13 ribs rounded, very small areoles, close-set, spines short…
Autor: (Schumann) Fric • ETYMOLOGY “Southern Cactus”, because the genus is native to South America. • DESCRIPTION A genus of plants of medium size, little to strongly ribbed and tuberculate, with the apex depressed, solitary or forming clumps, becoming elongated. Areoles usually woolly, Spines mostly straight or flexible, exceptionally hooked (N. tenuicylindricus). Flowers diurnal, sometimes self-fertile,…
Autor: Fric • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Erich Werdermann (1892-1959), German botanist and director of the botanical museum and herbarium of Berlin (see picture above); “neo” because the genus Werdermannia had already been used to designate a Brassicaceae, minimum / maximum altitude range (m) • DESCRIPTION A genus of small low growing plants, globose flattened, solitary, with…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Antonio Raimondi (1825-1890), Italian naturalist and geographer who dedicated his life travelling and studying Peru: “neo”, because the genus Raimondia already existed, to designate a genus of Annonaceae (1913). • DESCRIPTION A genus of bushy to treelike candelabra-shaped plants, sturdy, branched from the base, with erect stems usually…