''Corryocactus'' is a
genus of
cacti
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
. The genus was formerly placed in the
tribe Notocacteae
Notocacteae is a tribe of cactus, cacti belonging to the subfamily Cactoideae. It is one of the oldest cactus lineages endemic to South America.
Genera
References
Notocacteae,
Caryophyllales tribes
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. It has also been placed in the tribe
Echinocereeae. A 2011
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study excluded the genus from the "core" Echinocereeae, commenting that it lay "outside of a well-supported larger clade in our analysis".
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Species
Synonymy
The following genera have been brought into synonymy with this genus:
*''Corryocereus'' Fric & Kreuz.
Kurt Kreuzinger (1905–1989) was a German botanist, best known for his work with cacti.
References
20th-century German botanists
1905 births
1989 deaths
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(orth. var.)
*''Erdisia'' Britton & Rose
*''Eulychnocactus'' Backeb. Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cactus, cacti.
Biography
He travelled extensively through Central and South America, an ...
(nom. inval.)
References
External links
Corryocactus ayacuchoensis
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Corryocactus brevistylus subsp. puquiensis
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Cactoideae genera