Haageocereus
Sign in to saveHaageocereus is a genus of cacti endemic to the lower elevations of the extremely dry desert along the coast of Peru and northern Chile.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyCactaceae
Хагеоцереус (лат. Haageocereus) — род растений семейства кактусовые. Назван в честь Вальтера Хаге, потомственного владельца фирмы Kakteen-Haage, написавшего несколько книг о кактусах.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Collections
- GH, NY, UF, TEX, DES, MO
- Recorded in
- Peru, Ecuador, Germany
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Encyclopedic overview
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Haageocereus is a genus of cacti endemic to the lower elevations of the extremely dry desert along the coast of Peru and northern Chile.
==Description== The species of the genus Haageocereus grow like a shrub to tree-like, with outstretched and creeping, lengthwise, ascending or upright shoots. The shoots usually consist of many ribs, with closely spaced areoles from which numerous thorns arise. Areoles from which flowers arise often have additional bristles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haageocereus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.