Home Page | Maihuenia is a small genus of South-American mat forming primitive cacti that find themselves the only members in the Maihuenioideae subfamily. There are only 2 species that are distributed from the southern Andes to Patagonia.
Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia poeppigii Chupa Sangre, Espina del Guanaco Synonym and obsolete names Maihuenia albolanata synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia andicola synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia brachydelphys synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia cumulata synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia latispina synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia philippii synonym of Maihuenia poeppigii (Chupa Sangre, Espina del Guanaco) Maihuenia tehuelches synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia valentini synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Maihuenia valentinii synonym of Maihuenia patagonica Desert Tropicals Home Page List of All the Plants | More in the Cactaceae family Desert-Tropicals is dedicated to provide gardening advice, gardening ideas, and information about flower of all kind for landscape and collections.We try to check carefully the identification of the plants on the illustrations as well as the other information from the page, but occasionally errors do occur. if you notice anything that needs to be changed please contact us.Thanks. © 1998-2020 Philippe Faucon, All Rights Reserved. |