Autor: Schumann • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Pierre Rebut (1828-1898), French cactus nurseryman. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small size, low growing plants, solitary or forming compact clumps, globose depressed or shortly cylindrical. Areoles variable, rounded, ovate or elliptic. Spines tiny, usually fine, extremely variable in size, sometimes hairlike, mostly white. Flowers diurnal, usually self-fertile, funnel-shaped, with…
Autor: Backeberg • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Prof. Werner Rauh (1913-2000), German botanist, explorer and director of the Botanical garden of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, specialist of the Peruvian flora (and Madagascar). • DESCRIPTION A genus of shrubby columnar plants, branching usually from the base, forming groups of erect bluish green stems, with 5-6 tuberculate…
Autor: Buxbaum & Oehme • ETYMOLOGY “Turnip Cactus”, referring to the shape of the root in this genus, a long taproot. • DESCRIPTION A genus of small plants, globose to elongated, constricted towards the base, usually solitary, with the apex woolly. Large taproot, often exceeding the volume of the plant above the soil, often hoisted on…
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY “Quiabento”, vernacular name given to plants of this genus in Brazil, and commonly used. • DESCRIPTION A genus of shrubby plants (Q. zehntneri) or treelike (Q. verticillata), with cylindrical succulent branches, densely branched, often verticillate. Leaves succulent, flattened, ovate to spatulate, persistent to seasonal. Areoles bearing glochids and numerous spines….
Autor: D.R. Hunt • ETYMOLOGY Anagram of Opuntia, but at the same time referring to Puno, city of Peru near where the genus was found. • DESCRIPTION Monotypic genus of low growing plants forming wide compact cushions of several metres in diameter, with short, cylindrical, sometimes globose and tuberculate segmented stems, densely covered with hairs (trichomes)….