Autor: (Britton & Rose) MacDougall & Miranda • ETYMOLOGY “Winged Cereus”, referring to the angled, thin ribs of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of erect columnar plants, unbranched or only slightly (from 1.50 m high), being able to reach up to 8 m high, ribs 3-4, strongly angled and thin, with a bluish green to…
Autor: Schumann • ETYMOLOGY ≪Winged Cactus≫, referring to the characteristic winged seeds of the genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of geophytic dwarf plants with large tuberous roots; stems segmented, globose or cylindrical, breaking and rooting easily, often papillose, often disappearing in the dry season; areoles having spines and glochids are present or absent according to species….
Autor: Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY “False Rhipsalis”, because of the superficial resemblance with the genus Rhipsalis, but Pseudorhipsalis would rather be related to Dlsocactus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of bushy to shrubby plants, usually epiphytic, occasionally lithophytic, erect, then arching. Stems first cylindrical, then flattened (phylloclades), crenulate or not. The young areoles are often citiate, naked…
Autor: Ritter • ETYMOLOGY “False Acanthocereus”, referring to the superficial resemblance with this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of bushy low growing plants with strongly branched stems, at first erect, then arched and pendulous, with few ribs (2-8), but variable, slender and well-defined. Areoles rather small, brown, spines short and aciculate. Flowers nocturnal, self-sterile, funnel-shaped with…
Autor: Buxbaum • ETYMOLOGY Genus supposed older than Cereus, hence the name (prae = before). • DESCRIPTION A genus of shrubby plants, with slender cylindrical stems, more or less erect to prostrate, without mucilage, strongly branched at the base, except when the apex has been damaged. Areoles rounded, situated on a prominence, spines aciculate. Flowers nocturnal,…