The cacti have undergone extensive specialization in their evolutionary history, providing an excellent system in which to address large-scale questions of morphological and physiological adaptation.

Rhipsalis, the largest genus of tribe Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae), comprises 37 characteristically epiphytic species and a few rupicolous ones. It is well represented in the Brazilian flora, and its ...

THE issue of the fourth volume of “The Cactaceæ” brings this sumptuous monograph of the family to a conclusion. Previous volumes have been discussed in NATURE, vol. 107, p. 580, and vol. in, p. 426.

The new cactus lexicon / compiled and edited by David Hunt ; with the assistance of Nigel Taylor, Graham Charles and many members of the International Cactaceae Systematics Group ...

ALL cultivators of cacti and all botanists who are interested in this remarkable family of plants will feel satisfaction in knowing that at last we have in the English language a standard up-to-date ...