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    The genus Ariocarpus was first described in 1838 and contains 7 species and 1 subspecies of cacti found in Mexico and Texas. It derives its name from Latin words meaning oak and fruit. While exploring Mexico in 1838, Galeotti sent specimens to Scheidweiler and Lemaire, who published competing descriptions. The name Ariocarpus is now used according to botanical nomenclature rules.

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    The genus Ariocarpus was first described in 1838 and contains 7 species and 1 subspecies of cacti found in Mexico and Texas. It derives its name from Latin words meaning oak and fruit. While exploring Mexico in 1838, Galeotti sent specimens to Scheidweiler and Lemaire, who published competing descriptions. The name Ariocarpus is now used according to botanical nomenclature rules.

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    The genus Ariocarpus was first described in 1838 and contains 7 species and 1 subspecies of cacti found in Mexico and Texas. It derives its name from Latin words meaning oak and fruit. While exploring Mexico in 1838, Galeotti sent specimens to Scheidweiler and Lemaire, who published competing descriptions. The name Ariocarpus is now used according to botanical nomenclature rules.

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    A Brief History of the Genus Ariocarpus

    Chuck Staples, CSSA Historian, June 2018


    The genus Ariocarpus is a part of the family Cactaceae and was first described by
    Michel Joseph François Scheidweiler (1799–1861) in 1838 in the species of A. retusus.

    There are currently 7 species and 1 subspecies of Ariocarpus according to David


    Richard Hunt's 2006 book "The New Cactus Lexicon" — A. fissuratus can be found in
    the habitats of both State of Texas, USA and Mexico while the other seven, A.
    agavoides, A. bravoanus, A. bravoanus ssp hintonii, A. kotschoubeyanus, A. retusus,
    A. scaphirostris and A. trigonus can only be found in habitats of various States in
    Mexico.

    The name Ariocarpus is derived from the Latin aria (meaning a kind of oak) and carpos
    (from a possible resemblance of the fruits). Tubercles are rough in some species, smooth
    in some—grooved on some and some not—mostly spineless—became known as the
    'living rock cactus'.

    Sometime in 1838 while Henri-Guillaume Galeotti (1814–1858) was exploring in Mexico


    he came across some unusual cactus plants that he sent to both Scheidweiler and Charles
    Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871) in Europe. Not aware of Scheidweiler's earlier description
    of the plant, Lemaire published the plant as Anhalonium prismaticum in 1839 — was
    critical of Scheidweiler's description of his Ariocarpus species when it became known to
    Lemaire — and due to Lemaire's reputation as the known cactus expert at the time,
    Anhalonium was widely used until the rule of priority from the International Code of
    Botanical Nomenclature of 1905 decided to conserve Scheidweiler's Ariocarpus name
    under the family Cactacea.

    In his 2001 book "The Cactus Family", Edward Frederick Anderson (1932-2001) gives
    the following as synonyms of the genus Ariocarpus:
    Anhalonium Lemaire 1839
    Mammillaria fissurata Engelmann 1856
    Roseocactus A. Berger 1925
    Neogomesia Castañeda 1941
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