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Oreocereus
Oreocereus is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), known only from high altitudes of the Andes. Its name means "mountain cereus", formed from the Greek prefix oreo- (ὀρεο-, mountain) and the New Latin cereus, meaning wax or torch.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Oreocereus pseudofossulatus
speciesOreocereus pseudofossulatus
Old-man-of-the-Andes
speciesOreocereus celsianus
Oreocereus trollii
speciesOreocereus trollii
Oreocereus leucotrichus
speciesOreocereus leucotrichus
Oreocereus hempelianus
speciesOreocereus hempelianus
Oreocereus doelzianus
speciesOreocereus doelzianus
Oreocereus ritteri
speciesOreocereus ritteri
Oreocereus australis
speciesOreocereus australis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 205049.