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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun a genus of slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas.
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- noun slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas
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Diadre, D. (2004) Michel Scheidweiler y Henri Galeotti, los padres del género Ariocarpus (Cactaceae).
Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008
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Diadre, D. (2004) Michel Scheidweiler y Henri Galeotti, los padres del género Ariocarpus (Cactaceae).
Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008
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Diadre, D. (2004) Michel Scheidweiler y Henri Galeotti, los padres del género Ariocarpus (Cactaceae).
Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008
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At least 16 endemic genera of woody plants and cacti have been described from this province (e.g. Dasylirion, Eutetras, Sartwellia, Ariocarpus, and Lophophora).
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Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus (a cactus) has become threatened in San Luis Potosí due to land conversion into maize plantations.
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The habitat of Ariocarpus agavoides (a cactus) is also threatened by urban expansion.
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