Autor: Bravo • ETYMOLOGY A genus honouring Curt Backeberg (1894-1966), a prolific author of descriptions and expert in the Cactaceae family (see portrait above, Arch. JL). • DESCRIPTION Monospecific genus of plants with columnar stems, up to 6 m tall (sometimes 9 m), first solitary, then branched, consstricted when mature, with a typical cylindrical terminal…
Autor: Akers & Johnson • ETYMOLOGY ” Blue Wax candle “, referring to the typical blue colour of the epidermis of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of erect sturdy plants, usually sparsely branched, reaching up to 10 m high, glaucous, with a bluish epidermis (blue-green in A. viridis). First branches appearing from 1 m high….
Autor: Boedeker • ETYMOLOGY A genus so called because, according to the author, the side reliefs on the ribs evoked the sculptures of the Aztecs. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small to medium plants, solitary or caespitose, globose, depressed at the apex, with a greyish-green epidermis, weakly spiny, with deciduous spines, with wrinkled ribs, transversally streaked…
Autor: Spegazzini • ETYMOLOGY “Sturdy flute”, referring to the shape of the elongated and erect floral tube, typical of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small caespitose plants, stems globular flattened, forming cushions. Areoles having hairs and or bristles, Plants sometimes forming a taproot. Spines setose to finely aciculate. Flowers diurnal, self-sterile, basal, stamens and…
Autor: Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY “Cylindrical Opuntia of the South”, referring to the shape of the related genus Cylindropuntia, a native of North America, while Austrocylindropuntia lives in South America. • DESCRIPTION A genus of compact plants forming large cushions, bushy or shrubby, with cylindrical stems of indefinite growth, with more or less persistent cylindrical leaves, tuberous roots….