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21. geraniaceae (Phocagallery / geraniaceae) Habitat: nearly all the species are from South Africa. Description: a family of dicotyledonous, herbaceous plants. The leaves are normally opposite, palmate-veined, sometimes covered in soft hairs. ... 22. gymnocalycium (Phocagallery / gymnocalycium) Habitat: South America: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, southern Brazil, Bolivia, found from sea level to 1000 m (3300 ft) of altitude. Description: a genus of small, globular or short cylindrical cacti ... 23. hylocereus (Phocagallery / hylocereus) Habitat: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Antilles, and some northern regions of South America. The genus is spread over tropical areas with a humid, jungle-like climate. Description: a genus of forest ... 24. islaya (Phocagallery / islaya) Habitat: foggy coastal deserts of Peru and Chile where it hardly ever rains and rocky areas up to 1000 metres (3300 ft). Description: a group of cacti with a green, solitary, spherical or cylindrical ... 25. lemaireocereus (Phocagallery / lemaireocereus) Habitat: Mexico, southern areas of United States, Central America, Peru. Description: a group of diverse plants, whose taxonomy is still debated, with upright or decumbent, sometimes branching habit. ... 26. lobivia (Phocagallery / lobivia) Habitat: South America: Bolivia, Peru, Argentina. Description: a genus of small clumping globular plants, naturally growing in mountainous regions. In the summer, large, funnel-shaped flowers are borne ... 27. lophophora (Phocagallery / lophophora) Habitat: Texas, south-east of United States, Mexico. Description: they have a globular, green, spineless stem with a fleshy taproot resembling a beetroot. Some species produce offsets from the base. ... 28. machareocereus (Phocagallery / machareocereus) Habitat: Mexico, southern United States, Central America, Peru. Description: a group of upright or sprawling cacti with basal branching; they spread by means of runner-like stems with an ascending tip. ... 29. mammillaria (Phocagallery / mammillaria) Habitat: Mexico, south-west of the United States, South America, West Indies. Description: a genus of small, globular or cylindrical plants, from whose axils tiny, crown-shaped flowers arise; they may ... 30. matucana (Phocagallery / matucana) Habitat: Peruvian Andes. Description: a group of globular or columnar cacti with spines of variable length and colour and long-tubed flowers in the summer, followed by small green fruits. They once were ... 31. melocactus (Phocagallery / melocactus) Habitat: West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Mexico. In their native countries they can be also found growing on the seashore. Description: globular cacti with straight ribs and very variable in spination. ... 32. oreocereus (Phocagallery / oreocereus) Habitat: distributed over a wide area: Andean ranges of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile growing at heights of up to 3000 m (9800 ft). Description: these plants are typical of mountain cacti, having ... 33. oroya (Phocagallery / oroya) Habitat: foggy deserts on Peruvian Andes. Description: a group of small, globular, slightly squashed cacti with variable spination, often pectinate that flower in the summer after five years or so from ... 34. ortegocactus (Phocagallery / ortegocactus) Habitat: Mexico (Oaxaca State), growing in the crevices of dark volcanic rocks at approximately 2500 m (8200 ft) of altitude. Description: a genus of small, globular cacti having a greenish-gray epidermis ... 35. pachycereus (Phocagallery / pachycereus) Habitat: Mexico, desert of Baja California, United States. Description: a group of columnar cacti with slender stems branching from the base that may take a shrub-like form, sometimes of gigantic proportions. ... 36. parodia (Phocagallery / parodia) Habitat: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay. Description: these beautiful small, spiny cacti with a cylindrical or globular stem can bloom just 2 or 3 years after sowing. The large, funnel-shaped ... 37. pediocactus (Phocagallery / pediocactus) Habitat: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado. Description: a genus of small plants living at high elevations with a globular or subglobular shape. The tubercles are pronounced and ... 38. pereskia (Phocagallery / pereskia) Habitat: tropical America. Description: a primitive genus of cactaceous plants forming shrubs with a prostrate or climbing habit; the leaves are oval and stalked, the areoles large with tufts of tough ... 39. pterocactus (Phocagallery / pterocactus) Habitat: Argentina. Description: a genus of small cacti with cylindrical, sometimes jointed stems. They have fleshy roots and areoles with tiny spines. The plants produce yellow or white flowers near ... 40. rebutia (Phocagallery / rebutia) Habitat: Andean ranges of Bolivia, Argentina and a few other South American mountainous regions; they occur mostly at high elevations (up to 3000 m / 9800 ft) so they’re adapted to great diurnal ...
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