Geohintonia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Geohintonia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Geohintonia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Geohintonia
Geohintonia mexicana (discovered in 1992) is a species of cacti, the only species in the genus Geohintonia. This genus is named after its discoverer George S. Hinton. As its specific epithet suggests, the plant is found in Mexico (Nuevo León), where it grows on gypsum hills near Galeana.
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Sibling Taxa
- Acharagma
- Ancistrocactus
- Ariocarpus
- Astrophytum
- Aztekium
- Chichimecactus
- Cochemiea
- Coryphantha
- Cumarinia
- Echinocactus
- Echinofossulocactus
- Echinomastus
- Epithelantha
- Escobaria
- Ferocactus
- Geohintonia
- Glandulicactus
- Hamatocactus
- Homalocephala
- Kroenleinia
- Leuchtenbergia
- Lophophora
- Mammillaria
- Mammilloydia
- Neobesseya
- Neolloydia
- Obregonia
- Ortegocactus
- Pediocactus
- Pelecyphora
- Rapicactus
- Sclerocactus
- Strombocactus
- Thelocactus
- Turbinicarpus