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    Cephalium is a frequently brightly coloured structure of wool and bristle at the growing tip of certain cacti. It is most commonly found on cacti of the...
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    the correct genus name. Mature plants are easily recognizable by their cephalium, a wool- and bristle-coated structure at the apex of the plant, containing...
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    Islands in the Turks and Caicos are named after this cactus, whose red cephalium resembles the fez worn by Turkish men in the late Ottoman Empire. A stylised...
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  • Thumbnail for Oreocereus doelzianus
    The 10 to 20 radial spines are up to 3 cm (1.2 in) long. The terminal cephalium consists of long, white, wavy hairs and whitish-yellow bristles up to...
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    "cephalium" when mature – a dense mass of areoles covered with wool and spines at the tip of the stem. Flowers are produced only from the cephalium. Melocactus...
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    apex of the adult plants, there is a wooly cephalium, white or shaded with yellow or grey. The terminal cephalium, up to 4 centimeters high, is slightly depressed...
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    surrounded by an area of sound-absorbent and woolly hairs called the cephalium, which absorbs the bat's ultrasound instead. Flowers are also specialized...
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  • Thumbnail for Melocactus neryi
    up to 2.9 cm (1.14 in) long six to ten radial spines are curved. The cephalium, which consists of fine, dense, reddish to slightly orange-red bristles...
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    are named after the Turk's cap cactus, Melocactus intortus, whose red cephalium resembles the fez hat worn by Turks in the late Ottoman Empire. The first...
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    usually well developed and have large areoles, usually bearing spines. Cephalium is not present; C. mortensenii develops pseudocephalium. The flowers are...
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  • Thumbnail for Melocactus lemairei
    color, and can reach anywhere from 2 to 3 cm (1 inch) in length. The cephalium is brown, with white wool and thorn-like bristles, and grows up to 10 cm...
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  • Thumbnail for Coleocephalocereus
    erect and semi-erect columnar cacti from Brazil. These species develop a cephalium with wool and bristles. They are common to the inselbergs of the Brazilian...
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  • Thumbnail for Melocactus glaucescens
    by its glaucous appearance and its often whitish-yellow cephalium. The color of its cephalium varies slightly based on population. Braun, P.; Machado...
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    sometimes with a single central spine 1 to 2.5 centimeters long. The cephalium, measuring 20 to 50 centimeters long, has five to seven ribs and is covered...
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    flowers, and are covered with spines and white hair. In adulthood, a cephalium sometimes appears, similar to the Mexican genus Cephalocereus. Only the...
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    'yellowish brown' and -ceps for 'headed' and refers to the color of the cephalium. Harold Emery Moore placed the species in the genus Cephalocereus in 1975...
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    a cephalium (reddish brown wool,) running down from the crown (top of the plant) on one side, of the branches, later in a superficial dome cephalium. It...
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  • Thumbnail for Micranthocereus estevesii
    needle-like, light brown marginal spines that are 5 to 11 millimeters long. The cephalium, 5 to 7 centimeters wide, consists of white to cream-colored wool up to...
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  • Thumbnail for Micranthocereus purpureus
    to 20 needle-like white radial spines up to 10 millimeters long. The cephalium, up to 1 meter long and 12 centimeters wide, is composed of grayish white...
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    branches only after several years. It flowers at night from a lateral cephalium after several years. Woolly hairs have been used for pillow filling in...
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  • Thumbnail for Melocactus bahiensis
    mostly straight, that are up to 6 centimeters long. The mostly small cephalium is up to 5 centimeters high and reaches a diameter of 6.5 to 8.5 centimeters...
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  • Thumbnail for Discocactus bahiensis
    13 backward-curved spines are up to 3 centimeters long. The prominent cephalium is formed of white wool and a few short bristles. The slender, funnel-shaped...
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  • Thumbnail for Melocactus matanzanus
    When the plant has reached a certain age it shows at the growing tip a cephalium (hence the common name of "Turk's Cap"), a globose structure covered with...
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  • 3.2 centimeters long, with one pointing downwards. The hemispherical cephalium, consisting of white wool and dark brown bristles up to 3.2 centimeters...
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    downwards. The 30 to 40 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters wide cephalium consists of dense white wool and golden yellow bristles up to 6 centimeters...
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  • apex for 'tip' and the Greek word kephale for 'head' and refers to the cephalium formed at the tips of the shoots. Two nomenclature synonyms are Neodawsonia...
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    medium-sized, tubular to bell-shaped, borne in a woolly structure called cephalium which can appear apically or laterally and open at night. The flower cup...
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  • Thumbnail for Melocactus ernestii
    outwardly curved radial spines reach lengths of 4 to 15 centimeters. The cephalium is the red, columnar, formed from more or less pink-red bristles, which...
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    were named after the Turk's cap cactus, Melocactus intortus, whose red cephalium resembles the fez hat worn by Turkish men in the late Ottoman Empire....
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    short and thin radial spines are hidden in the hairs of the areoles. The cephalium arises laterally and has a length of up to 60 centimeters. The flowers...
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