Autor: Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY ≪Weberbauer’s cereus≫, genus honouring August Weberbauer (1871-1948), German botanist who was director of the botanical and zoological gardens of Lima (see picture above, public domain). • DESCRIPTION A genus of shrubby, columnar to treelike plants, branching from or near the base, sometimes with a well defined trunk. Branches erect or curved, sometimes…
Autor: Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Louis Vatrican (1904-2007), Monegasque, director of the Exotic Garden of Monaco from 1935 until 1969, and one of the founder members of the IOS (International Organization of Succulent Plants). See picture above, cJard. Ex. of Monaco/Jean-Marie Solichon. • DESCRIPTION A monotypic genus of columnar plants branching from the base, with…
Autor: Buining • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Werner Uebelmann (1921-2014), Swiss nursery gardener and prospector of cacti, especially in Brazil, but also in Paraguay and Uruguay (see picture above, ccourtesy Thomas Uebelmann). • DESCRIPTION A genus of usually solitary plants, rather small, globose to cylindrical (exceptionally up to 1.5 m high), with the epidermis smooth, papillose or…
Autor: (Backeberg) Buxbaum & Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY ≪Top Fruit≫, referring to the characteristic inverted cone or top-shaped fruit of the species in this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of very small plants, globose flattened to elongated, neotenic, usually solitary, but some may produce clusters. Ribs absent, divided into low tubercles, rounded to conical or deltoid. Areoles…
Autor: (Berger) Riccobono • ETYMOLOGY “Hairy Cereus” referring to the character of the floral tube, which is hairy in this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of shrubby to treelike plants, creeping, decumbent to erect (some rare species are pendulous) or massive columnar, reaching up to 15 m high. Ribs straight, with areoles close-set, covered with wool,…