CACTI --THE - -ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY ROD &KEN PRESTON-MAFHAM limber Press Portland,Oregon l'llbli"'o:tI l"N..T ....". !'r.... l "" Tho Ilastlli ... llui1&l\J lJJS.Ws.c-lA.... 1..... tbnd,Orookisdilidcd into\Wo scctions:tht firstcomprises a largenumber 0fplates wimaccompanyingnotes,SCIoutinalphabetical order;thesecondis3cross-referencingindexcontaining mostof thenameswhichha"cbeenincommonuse duringthelast20years. Whenrequiring infonnationabouta panicular spcdes,forexample aname takenfroma seed list,the reader should firstsearch forit in the illustrated main section.If thenameisnOl10befoundthere,itshouldthenbesoughtinthe index,wherehopefully theequivalent, asillustrated inthebook,willbefound. [nb01h namesmay hefoundinboldl)'pe forspecieswhichweaccept andin1I0nnaiilaliesforthosenameswhichweregardasinvalids)'non}'ffiS.(We acceptthaIsomereaders\\;11disagreewithsome of ourdeeisions,althoughthese arebaseduponKGP-lIl's wideexperienceof theextremevariability of cactiin habitat). Someof thenamesthai weacceptappearinim'trttd commas,whichareused forthreereasons.Firstlytheyindicateplantswhichweconsidersufficicntly distinctforinclusioninthebookbutwhichcurrently lacka validdescription. Sccontlly,they indieatt plants whiehha\"elx:enl'alidlydescribedbUlno t inthe way inwhichwefecithey shouldbeused,forin.mneeinthe\nong'genusorat specificT"Jtherthan\"arietalrank, or"ia rma.Thirdly,somenamesincommon useareinvalid,thatistosay,somemistakehasbeenmadeinthtoriginal dcscription,ormaterial of theoriginalplanthasnotbeendepositedinahcrbarium Umil suchtimeastheseplantsarel-alidlydcscribcd, thcir namcswillhavetobc maintainedasinouropinionthere arenoviablealtematiles.Thenew'combi-nations'tllUSseenininl'ertedcommasarcpurelyfor ourownusctOSCTWas indicationsof ourownideasandareNOTintendedtobcconsideredasv alidly published We anticipate thatman)' people willuse thisbook as a methodof deciding which speciesfromaplethoraofmany,perhapsunfamiliarnames,wouldbeworth purchasingfromseed andplantlists. j\lanylistscontainnumtrousrtdundantorinl'alidnames:forexample,the reader may seca specieslistedas Echillo{(frlls carspiloS/ls.Onlooking thisupinthe index youwillbereferredto Echinocereus reichcnbachii, whichis noll' accepted asthccorrcctname fOTthisspecies.Yourplantlistmayalsoinclude uhino{(f(us btlilqiwhichtheindexwillgil'eas a I'ariet)'of E.reiehenbachii. Somenamesintheindexwillbefollowedby the epithct'status doubtfu I' and it isimlKlrtantto cactus colleclingthatthese namesarccl"entuallytakenou tofuse. Inmanyinstancesthey referto whoseoriginaldescriptionswerescant, habitatswereI'agueornomatcrialwasdeposi tedfromwhichlatercollections couldpositivelybeidentified.Somerecentcollectionsarereckonedtoberedis-USINGTm: llICTIOS AR\11 covcricsof someof these'lost'species,buttousitscemsthatmuchofthisis lI"ishfulthinking andinmoslinstances it1I"0uldbe bettCT 10describe a ncwspecies orvarietyratherthanmaintaina doubtfuloldname.Wehalctrackeddownas many of these spuriousnames as possible butthe trueidentity of some of themhas continuedtoeludeus. SOURCESOF THEPLANTS Wehave included in code, in square brackets, asmuchinfonnationasisal 'ailable tous withregard10the origin,natureandOIlTIcrship ofthc plant.In a fewcasesII"Cdo not halcthis infonnation.First,ifknown,comesthecollector'scodeandriumber as folloll"s: 1) =Fraui\luhr SB= S.Brad Card.=M.Cardenas )0= ).Donald OF=O.Ferrari RMF= R.Femman 11= D.DH= D.Herzog IIU=Horst-Vebelmann K= H.Klein FK= F.Katlennan HK= H.Kuentzler KK=K.Knile KR=w.Krahn L= Lau jl..= j.Lamben FO= F.Otero P= j.Piltz I'j\\=PreslOn-Mafham WR==\V.Rausch Repp=\V.Rcpptnhagen FR=F. Riner Schl =H. Schlosser !-IS= II. Swoboda NPT=N.Ta\"lor DV= D. i\\LV=M.Vereb Secondistheoriginofthepbnt:H=aplantphotographedinhabitat; IP==apbntimponcdfromthe"ildoravcgetativePropab'ationfrom suchaplanl;HS=aplantgrownfromseedcollectedinhabitat;CS=a plantgrollTlfromoommcrcialsced. ThirdisthecollectionfromII"hichtheplantw3Sphotographed: EC=E.Charles GC= G.Charles ERC= Echinocereu, ReferenceCollection E= L.hans 01-15 = DonaldIHole/5man F= R.Ferryman G=P.Galin UNDERSTANDING THE NOTES K=1-1.Klein M= i\I. ,\ luse p= C.Pugh PM= Prcston-i\-lafham RM=R.Mottram K= A.Kollason W= 5.Wookod.:. It rna)'notbe obl;OUS II'hy somecntriescomainlinuall)'a fulldescriptionoft heplam II"hileolhers mention only thebriefcst details. Withinthe space milableforeachentry wehalegivenasmuchinfonnationaspossibleforthenewer,lessct-knollTlspecies andforthoscwhichsholl'alargeamountof lariation. IlolI"e,cr,withlessvariableor 12USlo\GTHE I)ICTIOi\,IRl' more familiar species wearc letting theillUSIr;ttions of the plants spc akfor themsclws, onthebasisIhala clearpictureiswonha thousandwords. Forthoseofyouwhoarenotfully versed inthenaming of cactusspies,Ihe foll owi ng diagramshoold hdp youunderstandmoreeasily theinfonnationcontained inIhetc.\l.Whcrcwchal'cproblems \lithspacc, spies names hal'c0Ce nabbreliated, butonl}' afterthey beenmentionedinfullatleastoncesomewherewithin the entry'.Again, due to limitedspace,anypanicularlylengthyentryhasbeenimoascparatcappendi.\". Sizes gil'cn are onl)' roughguides,hassho\lll usIhaltheel'entualsize ofaplam willoften I"aryfromcollectiontocollection, depcnding uponhow'h ard'the plantsafe grown,meaninghowmuchfoodandwatertheyare supplied\lith.Again, planTsincultil'ationoftenshowalesscrdcwlopmcmofspincslhanthosc tobc found inthewild. ILLUSTRATED A-ZOF SPECIES 1-1\CI'IIIOClllt.lLII Ac-.mlhocaJycium spiniflorum (Sch.)llkbg. 5hW; .,f:,O"",hop,b)ISc,,",'P ... H -lIl npinl I.lIinlp .. Copiapoahumilis(l'hiL)Jlmch. Ilol>o"),nd """" rrninru"'"... blodbl Clr...' ..,..holtht"'''''.hotdd JoI"""""" .10,.....11 1..,u",.""'.,'.IIJ010,..".. .1 .. 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