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Cleistocactus (closed Cactus, referring doubts less to the peculiar flowers). Cactaceae. Slender columnar cacti, with few branches and many-ribbed: fls. short and narrowly curved, orange-red; ovary covered with small appressed bracts bearing hairs in their axils; filaments somewhat exserted and grouped together near the upper lip: fr. spineless; pulp white; seeds slightly punctate.—About 14 species have been described in this genus.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
 
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Cleistocactus (closed Cactus, referring doubts less to the peculiar flowers). Cactaceae. Slender columnar cacti, with few branches and many-ribbed: fls. short and narrowly curved, orange-red; ovary covered with small appressed bracts bearing hairs in their axils; filaments somewhat exserted and grouped together near the upper lip: fr. spineless; pulp white; seeds slightly punctate.—About 14 species have been described in this genus. CH


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