Autor: Salm-Dyck • ETYMOLOGY Genus honouring Ludwig G.K. Pfeiffer (1805-1877), German doctor, botanist, physicist and malacologist, author of Enumeratio Cactearum (see portrait above, public domain). • DESCRIPTION A genus of mainly epiphytic, epilithic or terrestrial plants, erect to pendulous, with branched stems, segments of indeterminate size, branching in the middle (mesotony) of stems, which are variable, ..
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Tags: PFEIFFERA, Pfeiffera asuntapatensis, Pfeiffera boliviana, Pfeiffera ianthothele, Pfeiffera miyagawae, Pfeiffera monacantha, Pfeiffera monacantha subsp. kimnachii, Pfeiffera paranganiensis
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