Autor: (Backeberg) De Haas • ETYMOLOGY “Echlnopsls with bristles”, because the genus has a floral tube covered with characteristic bristles. • DESCRIPTION A monotypic genus of small plants with a short life cycle (3-5 years, not much more), usually solitary (sometimes branched), with a short, thick taproot and fine secondary roots. Stem cylindrical, strongly pigmented, brownish…
Autor: (Berger) Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY ≪Cereus of Selene≫, because Selene was the Greek moon goddess, and the flowers of this genus open only at night. • DESCRIPTION A genus of epiphytic or more often epilithic or terrestrial plants, with long and slender climbing stems, densely branched, exceeding 5 m long, finely ribbed, with…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY “Hard, cruel cactus”, according to the authors, “referring to the formidable hooked spines which hold on in a most aggravating manner”. • DESCRIPTION A genus of solitary plants, or forming clumps from the base, globose to elongated more or less cylindrical, the apex usually depressed, with a strongly fleshy and…
Autor: Lemaire • ETYMOLOGY Genus dedicated by Charles Lemaire to Frederic Schlumberger (1823-1893), French manufacturer, collector of cacti in Chateau d’Authieux (now Anthieux) near Rouen, author of several articles on cacti in Revue Horticole. However, Schlumberger neither collected nor discovered the plant. In fact, it was collected by Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), British explorer and botanist. •…
Autor: Cárdenas • ETYMOLOGY Genus native of the region of Samaipata, in Bolivia, hence the name. • DESCRIPTION Monotypic genus of treelike, columnar plants, with a trunk and heavily branched. Stems cylindrical, erect, not segmented, dark green, up to 4-6 well-defined ribs, with brown areoles well-separated and regularly arranged. Usually 5 spines, undifferentiated, short, subulate, one…