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    The Cactaceae is a monograph on plants of the cactus family written by the American botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose and published...
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    Cactus (redirect from Cactaceae)
    or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (/kækˈteɪsi.iː, -ˌaɪ/), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127...
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    In 1984, the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study set up a working party, now called the International Cactaceae Systematics Group, to...
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    Epiphyllum (/ˌɛpɪˈfɪləm/; "upon the leaf" in Greek) is a genus of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae), native to Central America and South...
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    Microteaceae, Cactaceae, and Petiveriaceae were added in APG IV. As circumscribed by the APG III system (2009), this order includes the same families as the APG...
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  • List of Opuntia species. The genus Opuntia is within the tribe Opuntieae of the subfamily Opuntioideae, in the family Cactaceae. Species of Opuntia currently...
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    in the family Cactaceae, native to southern Brazil. Like other members of the tribe Rhipsalideae, its species are epiphytes, growing on trees. The genus...
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    The Cactoideae are the largest subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae, and are widely distributed throughout the Americas. Cactaceae is the 5th most...
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    University Press. Archived from the original on 2022-03-06. Cota-Sánchez, J. Hugo (2004), "Vivipary in the Cactaceae: Its taxonomic occurrence and biological...
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    Stenocereus griseus (Cactaceae) en la Alta Guajira colombiana [Usage, Management and Conservation of yosú, Stenocereus griseus (Cactaceae), in the Upper Guajira...
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    are very difficult to remove from the skin. The cactus family, the Cactaceae, evolved 30–40 million years ago in the Americas, originally completely separately...
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    Opuntioideae is a subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae. It contains 15 genera divided into five tribes. The subfamily encompasses roughly 220–250...
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    Plant Study, the genus Hylocereus was one of the six genera of the tribe Hylocereeae. A 2011 study of the molecular phylogeny of the Cactaceae concluded...
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    Trichocereus macrogonus (category Commons category link is defined as the pagename)
    Sofía (2012), "A New Taxonomic Treatment of the Genus Trichocereus (Cactaceae) in Chile", Haseltonia, 18: 116–139, doi:10.2985/026.018.0114 Salm-Reifferscheidt...
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    some families, such as Aizoaceae, Cactaceae, and Crassulaceae, most species are succulents. In horticultural use, the term is sometimes used in a way that...
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    the genus Stenocereus, while pitahaya or dragon fruit refers to fruit of the genus Selenicereus (formerly Hylocereus), both in the family Cactaceae....
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    Echinocereus is a genus in the tribe Echinocereeae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae family. The Cactoideae can be further divided into two sister...
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    plants in the family Cactaceae, found in Bolivia and northwest Argentina. There is some debate about the circumscription of the genus. It is in the Phyllocacteae...
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    pachycladus is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae found in eastern Brazil, and introduced to the Canary Islands. Pilosocereus pachycladus...
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    guatemalensis, commonly known as the Guatemalan prickly pear, is a species of prickly pear cactus in the family Cactaceae. It was described by Nathaniel...
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    Pereskia (category Cactaceae genera)
    A 2005 study suggested that the genus Pereskia as then circumscribed (Pereskia sensu lato) was basal within the Cactaceae, and confirmed earlier suggestions...
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  • Halle an der Saale) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae. Quehl was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed...
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    Rebutia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cactaceae, native to Bolivia and Argentina. They are generally small, colorful cacti, globular in...
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    Schlumbergera (category Flora of the Atlantic Forest)
    Graham (2006). The New Cactus Lexicon. International Cactaceae Systematics Group. ISBN 0953813444. "Rhipsalidopsis Britton & Rose", Plants of the World Online...
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    Opuntia (category Cacti of the United States)
    Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and...
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    Saguaro (category Cacti of the United States)
    his work on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, published in 1859. The next major taxonomic treatment came from The Cactaceae, the seminal work...
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    Opuntia erinacea (category Cacti of the United States)
    Opuntia erinacea, the Mojave prickly pear, variously treated as a species, or as a variety of Opuntia polyacantha, in the family Cactaceae, that is a distributed...
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    Airampoa is a South American genus of the cactus family (Cactaceae). Species of the genus Airampoa according to Plants of the World Online As of January 2023[update]:...
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    Schlumbergera truncata (category Flora of the Atlantic Forest)
    Schlumbergera truncata, the false Christmas cactus, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to a small area of the coastal mountains of...
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    Parodia magnifica is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to southern Brazil. One of several species called ball cactus, it is...
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