Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY A genus honouring Webster E. Browning (1869-1942), director of the English Institute of Santiago, Chile (Portrait unknown). • DESCRIPTION A genus of plants usually treelike and branched, with ribbed cylindrical stems, candelabra like or columnar, some having the characteristics of a trunk densely covered with spines while the reproductive stems…
Autor: Ritter • ETYMOLOGY “Parodia of Brazil”, highlighting the origin of the genus, Brazil, because Parodia s.s. is mainly from Argentina. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small plants, solitary or forming clumps of more or less spherical to elongated stems, with the apex depressed, with low ribs, well defined by areoles, divided into…
Autor: (Schumann) Berger • ETYMOLOGY Opuntia of Brazil, placing the origin of the genus in this country, although it was later found also in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru . • DESCRIPTION A genus of treelike plants, with a clearly defined trunk, covered with groups of spines, with cylindrical stems producing pads (or cladodes) rather thin, wearing few…
Autor: Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY ” Wax candle of Brazil “, specifying the Brazilian origin of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A shrubby genus, rarely branched, with erect or bent fine cylindrical stems with narrow ribs. Areoles woolly, spines setose or aciculate. Roots fibrous. Flowers nocturnal, shortly tubular to bell-shaped, whitish to pale green, pollinated by bats. Fruits…
Autor: Esteves, Hofacker & Braun • ETYMOLOGY A genus honouring Alexander Braga Nascimento, who recently discovered this taxon (see portrait above, ©Alex Braga Nascimento). • DESCRIPTION Monospecific genus recently established for a taxon currently unclassifiable among the known genera, with tuberous roots, cylindrical stems sparsely branched and ligneous at the base, erect, up to 4 m high,…