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Roberto Kiesling

Flora de San Juan (Extract)

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The Flora de San Juan is a collective work with an explicit title. We propose the 34 pages of descriptions and 11 pages of colour pictures devoted to cacti.





El género Trichocereus (Cactaceae) — I: Las especies de la Rep. Argentina

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This is an article (in Spanish) stemming from the PhD Thesis of Roberto which was defended in 1976. Initially, Roberto wanted to study Gymnocalycium, but the work revealed to be overwhelming. He thus decided to focus on a smaller genus, i.e., Trichocereus. With his first wife, he made three field trips using a French 2 CV pick-up (Citroën) as a camping car. The resulting work is still valid although some recombinations have been published. It is furthermore of great help since Trichocereus are rarely seen in collections because of their dimensions.


Right: Trichocereus terscheckii

Estudios en Cactaceae de Argentina: Maihueniopsis, Tephrocactus y Géneros afines (Opuntioideae)

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Article of 45 pages published in Darwiniana 1984 devoted to Maihueniopsis, Tephrocactus and Puna.




Right: Maihueniopsis glomerata.



Los Géneros de Cactaceae de Argentina

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General article of 31 pages published in the Bulletin of the Botanical Society of Argentina in 1975.





Cactáceas Publicadas por el Dr. Carlos Spegazzini

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This book sums up the articles by Carlos Spegazzini dedicated to Cacti. Along about 200 pages, the reader will find new descriptions such as Echinocactus (Lobivia) famatimensis1), the birth of genus Parodia, some old pictures,etc. Roberto Kiesling has added about 50 pages of comments and other old pictures of the epoch, most of Spegazzini.

Les cactées de Bolivie

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This is a copy of the article initially published in the French journal Succulentes. The original article has been corrected for some errors, and it is supplemented with an update co-authored by Detlev Metzing, and some new pictures have been added. The total amounts to 58 pages and 73 pictures (23 new).2)




Right: Roberto Kiesling in front of Lobivia miniatiflora.

Flora Patagonica (Extract)

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The Flora Patagonica is a collective work with an explicit title. We propose the 31 pages of descriptions and plates devoted to cacti.






100 Cactus Argentinos

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This book, 130 pages long and published in 2005, has been written by Roberto Kiesling together with Omar Ferrari. It is an “absolute must” because it describes breifly and accurately the main Argentinian cacti with pictures of flowering plants taken in the wild, often accompanied by useful details that are rearely presented. Probably one of the best booklet ever published on the subject.

Omar Ferrari (1936-2010) was a nursery man of Italian origin who lived in La Plata near Buenos-Aires. He became passionate with cacti in the early '60s and soon acquired a nice and ever growing cactus collection composed of plants collected along his field trips. He made friends with reputed specialists such as Roberto Kiesling, Walter Rausch, and his collection has been considered by the IOS as a reference collection. Whoever visited him, came back with many cuttings and seedlings of novelties. His name is honored by several cacti: Acanthocalycium ferrari, Austrocactus ferrari, Cleistocactus ferrari, and Gymnocalycium ferrari.
Right: Omar Ferrari in his greenhouse.

1)
never written famatinensis!
2)
Work in collaboration with SulcoPassion
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