This genus was named after the town Oroya in Peru, which is near the location where the first plants were discovered, in 1903, by August Weberbauer. This is a small genus of high-elevation plants (even 4,000 metres above sea level) from the Andes mountains in Peru. Oroya species are barrel-shaped with many ribs that are topped with usually-dense pectinate spines ranging in colour from bright-yellow to brilliant pink/red and produce relatively small yellow or pink flowers. Being high-elevation plants, they need full sun exposure.
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