Autor: Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY ≪Cereus with hairy flowers≫, because the calyx of the flowers has fine hairs. • DESCRIPTION A genus of cereiform plants, mostly solitary, rarely branching, if so, from the base, exceeding no more than 4 m high, having very early long setose hairs at the base, ribs finely tuberculate, bearing a slightly sunken…
Autor: (K. Schumann) Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY “Cactus with nipples”, referring to the characteristic nipple-shaped tubercles of species included in this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small plants, solitary or caespitose, globose with the apex depressed, or conical to cylindrical not exceeding 40 cm high and 20 cm in diameter. Ribs often indistinct, but…
Autor: Lemaire • ETYMOLOGY “Ash Cactus”, referring to the characteristic ash grey colour of the epidermis of some species in this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small bushy to shrubby plants, with dense terminal or subterminal branches, producing numerous globose or cylindrical segments which, in some species, appear stacked on top of each other. Roots…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY Anagram of Catinga (or Caatinga), Northeastern region of Brazil where the species of this genus live. It is characterized by a semi-desert xerophytic vegetation consisting of spiny deciduous shrubs and cacti. • DESCRIPTION A genus of bushy or lianiform plants, erect, climbing or crawling, with stems segmented, cylindrical, or elongated…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY ≪Wrapped cactus≫, referring to the way that plants of certain species in this genus (S. wittii, S. testudo) wrap themselves around trees. • DESCRIPTION A genus of epiphytic or epilithic plants, climbing or pendulous, polymorphic, one of them myrmecophilous (S. testudo), with angled or flattened, segmented stems, appressed against trunks,…