''Frailea'' is a
genus of globular to short cylindrical
cacti
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
native to
South America. These species are
cleistogamous. They were first classified in the genus ''
Echinocactus''.
Species
Species accepted by the
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...
as of October 2022:
References
External links
Frailea webCactiguide Frailea
Cacti of South America
Cactoideae genera
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