Autor: (Engelmann) Lemaire • ETYMOLOGY “Flower in the summit”, because flowers of this genus appear in a typical way at the top of the plants. • DESCRIPTION A genus of solitary plants or eventually forming compact clumps branching from the base. Stems globose to cylindrical, tubercles often very prominent, elongated and rounded or pyramidal, with a…
Autor: F. Knuth in Backeberg & Knuth • ETYMOLOGY “Club-Opuntia”, referring to the typical club-shaped stems of the species in this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of dwarf, bushy and low-growing plants, densely branched, with shortly cylindrical to clavate small segments, tuberculate and not ribbed. Spines having a sheath only at the apex, one is usually…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY A genus honouring Thomas Avery Corry ( 1862-1942 ), engineer of Railroads in Peru (Ferrocarril del Sur), who helped Britton and Rose to explore the country. They said that they found thanks to him, not less than three species of this genus throughout the route of railway. Portrait is unknown….
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY Genus coming from the province of Copiapo, Chile, where the first species were described from. • DESCRIPTION A genus of globose to elongated plants, very variable in size, dwarf to huge, solitary to densely branched, consisting of hundreds of stems, sometimes with a waxy epidermis, the apex often densely covered…
Autor: Lemaire • ETYMOLOGY A genus honouring Michelangelo Console (1812-1897), Italian botanist, specializing in cacti, curator of the Botanical Garden of Palermo, Italy. Portrait is unknown. • DESCRIPTION A genus of treelike plants with one or several very spiny cylindrical trunks, bearing lateral or terminal, sometimes dense branches, with suborbicular to elongated or ellipsoid cladodes, with…