A brief commentary on the genera of tribe Cereeae is presented, with diagnoses of some genera, notes on the circumscription of subgenera and comments on several infrageneric and infraspecific taxa. A key to genera and a phylogenetic dendrogram are presented. Various new names in Cereus, Pilosocereus, Arrojadoa, Coleocephalocereus and Melocactus are published. Species relationships in Melocactus are briefly discussed.
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1 December 1988
On the taxonomy of Brazilian Cereeae (Cactaceae)
Pierre J. Braun
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Vol. 1988 • No. 6
December 1988
Vol. 1988 • No. 6
December 1988