Acanthocalycium spiniflorum (K. Schumann) Backeberg 1935 – Echinocactus spiniflorum K. Schumann 1903, – Echinopsis spiniflora (K. Schumann) A. Berger 1929 – Echinopsis violacea Werdermann 1931, – Acanthocalycium violaceum(Werdermann) Backeberg 1935 Plants usually solitary, globose to somewhat elongate, depressed apically, to 60 cm (24 in) high, 10-15 cm (3.9-5.9 in) in diameter. Ribs 16-20, acute, somewhat…
Acanthocalycium klimpelianum (Weidlich & Werdermann) Backeberg 1935 – Echinopsis klimpeliana – Weidlich & Werdermann 1927, – Lobivia klimpeliana – (Weidlich & Werdermann) A. Berger 1929 – Acanthocalycium peitscherianum – Backeberg 1935, – Echinopsis peitscheriana (Backeberg) – Friedrich & G. D. Rowley 1974 Plants solitary, flattened globose, to 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter. Ribs about 19, acute,…
Acanthocalycium ferrarii – Rausch 1976 – Acanthocalycium variiflorum Backeberg 1966, not validly published Plants solitary, globose to cylindrical, green, to 12 cm (4.7 in) in diameter. Ribs as many as 18, rounded, swollen at areoles. Areoles oval, whitish. Spines horn colored to brown, usually straight, awl shaped. Central spines 1-4, to 1.5 cm (0.6 in) long. Radial spines 7-9,…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Charles Edwin Bessey (1845-1915), professor of botany at the University of Nebraska (USA). “Neo”, because the genus Besseya had already been used to designate a Scrophulariaceae in 1903 (see portrait above, public domain). • DESCRIPTION A genus of small plants more or less spherical, or subglobose becoming elongated,…
Autor: Console • ETYMOLOGY ≪ Blueberry cactus≫, referring to the fruits of the genus, very similar to blueberries and edible. • DESCRIPTION A genus of shrubby to treelike plants, strongly branched, usually wider than high when adult, never exceeding 5 m in height, with stems more or less erect, few angled (5-8), wide ribs, with areoles…