Pfeiffera

Pfeiffera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cactaceae, found in Bolivia and northwest Argentina.[1] There is some debate about the circumscription of the genus.[2] It is in the Phyllocacteae tribe.

Pfeiffera
Pfeiffera monacantha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Phyllocacteae
Subtribe: Echinocereinae
Genus: Pfeiffera
Salm-Dyck
Type species
Pfeiffera ianthothele
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Bolivihanburya Guiggi

The genus name of Pfeiffera is in honour of Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer (1805–1877), a German physician, botanist and conchologist.[3] It was first described and published in Cact. Hort. Dyck., edt. 1844 on page 40 in 1845.[1]

Species

The following species are accepted:[1]

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Pfeiffera asuntapatensis (M.Kessler, Ibisch & Barthlott) Ralf BauerBolivia
Pfeiffera boliviana (Britton) D.R.HuntBolivia.
Pfeiffera ianthothele F.A.C.WeberBolivia to NW. Argentina
Pfeiffera miyagawae Barthlott & RauhBolivia.
Pfeiffera monacantha (Griseb.) P.V.HeathBolivia to NW. Argentina
Pfeiffera paranganiensis (Cárdenas) P.V.HeathBolivia

References

  1. "Pfeiffera Salm-Dyck". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  2. Korotkova, Nadja; Zabel, Leonie; Quandt, Dietmar; Barthlott, Wilhelm (2010). "A phylogenetic analysis of Pfeiffera and the reinstatement of Lymanbensonia as an independently evolved lineage of epiphytic Cactaceae within a new tribe Lymanbensonieae". Willdenowia. 40 (2): 151–172. doi:10.3372/wi.40.40201. S2CID 83770697.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.


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