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    Cactus (redirect from Cactaceae)
    cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (/kæˈkteɪsiaɪ, -siːiː/), a family comprising about 127 genera with some...
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    Succulent Plant Study set up a working party, now called the International Cactaceae Systematics Group, to produce a consensus classification of the cactus...
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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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    leaf" in Greek) is a genus of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae), native to Central America and South America. Common names for these...
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    Ancistrocladaceae family Asteropeiaceae family Barbeuiaceae family Basellaceae family Cactaceae family Caryophyllaceae family Didiereaceae family Dioncophyllaceae family...
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    largest subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae, and are widely distributed throughout the Americas. Cactaceae is the 5th most endangered plant or animal...
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    A. (2012), "A New Subgeneric Classification of Rhipsalis (Cactoideae, Cactaceae)", Systematic Botany, 37 (4): 983–988, doi:10.1600/036364412X656455, S2CID 84206266...
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    them, more than 25 plant families. In some families, such as Aizoaceae, Cactaceae, and Crassulaceae, most species are succulents. In horticultural use,...
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    and are very difficult to remove from the skin. The cactus family, the Cactaceae, evolved 30–40 million years ago in the Americas, originally completely...
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    terete or triangular. In the 1994 classification of the International Cactaceae Systematics Group of the International Organization for Succulent Plant...
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    Rhipsalidopsis is a small genus of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to southern Brazil. Like other members of the tribe Rhipsalideae, its...
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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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    bulbispina is native to Mexico. It is a member of the family Cactaceae. Family ~ Cactaceae (kak-TAY-see-ee) Genus ~ Grusonia (gru-SON-ee-uh) Species ~...
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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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    Pilosocereus pachycladus is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae found in eastern Brazil, and introduced to the Canary Islands. Pilosocereus...
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    Cylindropuntia is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), containing species commonly known as chollas (/ˈtʃɔɪəz/), native to northern Mexico and the Southwestern...
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    treated as a species, or as a variety of Opuntia polyacantha, in the family Cactaceae, that is a distributed throughout the Mojave and into the southern Great...
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    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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    fruit of the genus Selenicereus (formerly Hylocereus), both in the family Cactaceae. The common name in English – dragon fruit – derives from the leather-like...
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    Pereskia (category Cactaceae genera)
    Pereskia as then circumscribed (Pereskia sensu lato) was basal within the Cactaceae, and confirmed earlier suggestions that it was paraphyletic, i.e. did...
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    the color of these plants' epidermis) is a genus of the cactus family (Cactaceae). Species of the genus Tephrocactus according to Plants of the World Online...
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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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    prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Cacti are well-adapted...
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    published in 1859. The next major taxonomic treatment came from The Cactaceae, the seminal work on cactus by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson...
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    Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Cactaceae Subfamily: Cactoideae Genus: Lophophora Species: L. williamsii Binomial...
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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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    family Cactaceae found mainly in North America especially Mexico. As of August 2018[update], the internal classification of the family Cactaceae remained...
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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 grows...
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    Pfeiffera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cactaceae, found in Bolivia and northwest Argentina. There is some debate about the circumscription...
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    Kew. Retrieved 2021-05-04. Leuenberger, Beat Ernst (1986). Pereskia (Cactaceae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. Vol. 14. Bronx, NY: New York...
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