Coryphantha

E864888

genus of plants taxon

Coryphantha is a genus of small, often globular cacti known for their tuberculate stems and showy flowers, native to arid regions of North and Central America.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Coryphantha canonical	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	genus of plants ⓘ taxon ⓘ
adaptation	drought tolerance ⓘ spines for protection and shading ⓘ water storage in stems ⓘ
characteristic	absence of ribs ⓘ areoles at tips of tubercles ⓘ globular to short cylindrical stems ⓘ grooves on tubercles leading to areoles ⓘ small size ⓘ tuberculate stems ⓘ
clade	Magnoliophyta ⓘ surface form: Angiosperms Eudicots ⓘ Tracheophyta NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Mammillaria NERFINISHED ⓘ
cultivationRequirement	full sun to bright light ⓘ minimal watering ⓘ well-drained soil ⓘ
describedBy	George Engelmann NERFINISHED ⓘ
distinguishedBy	grooved tubercles leading to areoles ⓘ
family	Cactaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ
flowerCharacteristic	showy flowers ⓘ
flowerColor	pink ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ
flowerPosition	apical ⓘ
fruitCharacteristic	often edible fruit ⓘ
fruitType	fleshy berry ⓘ
habitat	arid regions ⓘ deserts ⓘ grasslands ⓘ rocky slopes ⓘ
hasCommonName	beehive cactus ⓘ foxtail cactus ⓘ
includesSpecies	Coryphantha cornifera NERFINISHED ⓘ Coryphantha macromeris NERFINISHED ⓘ Coryphantha pallida ⓘ Coryphantha sulcata NERFINISHED ⓘ Coryphantha vivipara ⓘ
kingdom	Plantae ⓘ
nativeTo	Central America ⓘ Great Plains of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ North America ⓘ southwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
order	Caryophyllales NERFINISHED ⓘ
photosynthesisType	CAM photosynthesis ⓘ
subfamily	Cactoideae NERFINISHED ⓘ
taxonAuthor	George Engelmann NERFINISHED ⓘ
tribe	Cacteae NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedAs	ornamental plant ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Coryphantha
Description of subject: Coryphantha is a genus of small, often globular cacti known for their tuberculate stems and showy flowers, native to arid regions of North and Central America.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cactoideae → includesGenus → Coryphantha ⓘ