Vatricania

Vatricania Backeb. (1950)

🌵 Author(s)	Curt Backeberg
🌵 Type	Vatricania guentheri

Etymology

Named for Monegasque agronomist Louis Vatrican (1904-2007), director of the Jardin Exotique de Monaco and founder member of the International Organization of Succulent Plants.

#Genus accepted in POWO #Monotypic genera

Accepted name

Espostoa

U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (2021)

Vatricania

Plants of the World Online (2020)

Espostoa

David Hunt (2006): The New Cactus Lexicon

Espostoa

R.K. Brummitt (1992): Vascular Plant Families and Genera

Vatricania

Curt Backeberg (1958-1962): Die Cactaceae

Placement in Cactaceae

Cactoideae → Cereeae → Trichocereinae

Reto Nyffeler & Urs Eggli (2010): A farewell to dated ideas and concepts: molecular phylogenetics and a revised suprageneric classification of the family Cactaceae. Schumannia 6: 109-149

Cereoideae → Cereeae → Boreocereeae → Boreocereinae → Cephalocerei → Eucephalocerei

Curt Backeberg (1958): Die Cactaceae, Band 1 (provided for historical interest only)

Other resources

🌵 International Plant Names Index

🌵 Plants of the World Online

🌵 World Checklist of Vascular Plants

🌵 Caryophyllales.org

🌵 Tropicos

🌵 Biodiversity Heritage Library

🌵 Wikipedia

🌵 Wikispecies

How to cite

van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 5). Vatricania. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/vatricania