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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

surrounded by an area of sound-absorbent and woolly hairs called the cephalium, which absorbs the bat's ultrasound instead. Flowers are also specialized...

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...

usually well developed and have large areoles, usually bearing spines. Cephalium is not present; C. mortensenii develops pseudocephalium. The flowers are...

by its glaucous appearance and its often whitish-yellow cephalium. The color of its cephalium varies slightly based on population. Braun, P.; Machado...

flowers, and are covered with spines and white hair. In adulthood, a cephalium sometimes appears, similar to the Mexican genus Cephalocereus. Only the...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

3.2 centimeters long, with one pointing downwards. The hemispherical cephalium, consisting of white wool and dark brown bristles up to 3.2 centimeters...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

makros for 'big' and kephalos for 'head' and refers to the large terminal cephalium. Cephalocereus macrocephalus is widespread in the Mexican state of Puebla...