A cactus (pl.: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) [3] is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (/ k æ k ˈ t eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /), [a] a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about …

仙人掌科 （Cactaceae）是 被子植物门 、 双子叶植物纲 、 石竹亚纲 、 石竹目 的一科，多数为 多年生草本植物 ，少数为灌木或乔木。 该科有140属2000余种，大多原产美洲热带、 亚热带 …

Feb 24, 2025 · cactus, (family Cactaceae), flowering plant family (order Caryophyllales) with nearly 2,000 species and 139 genera. Cacti are native through most of the length of North and …

仙人掌是石竹目仙人掌科（學名： Cactaceae 粵音：sin1 jan4 zoeng2）的植物總稱，為多肉植物，但在園藝界通常將其獨立自一般的多肉植物類型，而稱為「仙人掌與多肉植物」（ cactus …

Cactaceae (Caryophyllales) are renowned for their adaptations to drought and desert environments. They comprise two “typical” subfamilies, the Cactoideae and Opuntioideae, …

As of August 2023, the internal classification of the family Cactaceae remained uncertain and subject to change. A classification incorporating many of the insights from the molecular …

The Cactaceae is a monograph on plants of the cactus family written by the American botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose and published in multiple volumes between …

A cactus (plural: cacti, cactuses, or 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 …

Aug 4, 2022 · The cactus family – Cactaceae – includes about 2000 species of plants distributed in places of desert or very dry climate, mainly in Central America and South America, although …

The cactus family (Cactaceae) consists of about 131 genera and 1,866 species of flowering plants, almost all of which are found in the New World. Most cacti are adapted to arid …