Pfeiffera
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| Pfeiffera | |
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| Pfeiffera monacantha | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Tribe: | Echinocereeae |
| Genus: | Pfeiffera Salm-Dyck |
| Type species | |
| Pfeiffera ianthothele | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Bolivihanburya Guiggi | |
Pfeiffera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cactaceae, found in Bolivia and northwest Argentina.[1] There has been some debate about the circumscription of the genus. It is placed in the tribe Echinocereeae.[2]
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]
