ORTEGOCACTUS

Autor: Alexander • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Francisco Ortega’s family, a Zapotee Indian guide from San Jose Lachiguiri, Oaxaca, Mexico, who discovered the species for MacDougall. Portrait is unknown. • DESCRIPTION Monotypic genus of low growing plants at first solitary, becoming caespitose, with stems globose to shortly elongated, pale greyish-green. Tubercles arranged spirally, more or less flattened…