Scheidweiler • ETYMOLOGY «Fruit of Aria», genus named so because of its analogy with the elongated fruits of Aria, the ancient Greek name for the cork oak (not the mountain ash or rowan tree, as often reported In the literature). • DESCRIPTION A genus of compact, solitary plants, or growing In small clumps, geophytic, having…
Autor: Lemaire • ETYMOLOGY “impenetrable, tangled cactus”, because of the countless tangled stems of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of epiphytic or lithophytic plants with long crawling or hanging cylindrical stems, possessing aerial roots. Spines short and aciculate. Flowers diurnal, self-sterile, more or less zygomorphic, lasting for several days, pink to scarlet red, with a…
Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY Originates from the Greek words ancistron, meaning fishhook, and kaktos, meaning thistle, because of the strongly hooked central spines, characteristic of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of globose to elongated plants, solitary, sometimes constricted at the base and having a tap root. Ribs more or less tuberculate, tubercles with nectar glands,…
Autor: Fric • ETYMOLOGY Taken from the native name of the plant (in Quechua, ayrampo, airampo, ayrampu means garnet red), whose fruits are used as a colouring in food, and as a dye. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small, low, strongly articulated and compact opuntias, forming small cushions. Spines finely aciculate, of variable size and colour, glochids…
Autor: (N. P. Taylor) A. D. Zimmerman • ETYMOLOGY “No groove”, because of the absence of an areolar groove (viz a viz Coryphantha and Escobaría, whose areoles have a groove). • DESCRIPTION A genus of small solitary or caespitose plants, globose to shortly cylindrical. Tubercles having neither nectar glands, nor areolar groove. Spines densely covering the epidermis….