Which has more species, Ribes or Copiapoa?
Ribes Ribes is a genus of about 150 known species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae, but a few taxonomists place the gooseberry species in a separate genus of "Grossularia".
White currant The white currant is a group of cultivars of the red currant ("Ribes rubrum"), a species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae, native to Europe. It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1 m tall and broad, with palmate leaves, and masses of spherical, edible fruit (berries) in summer. The white currant differs from the red currant only in the colour and flavour of these fruits, which are a translucent white and sweeter.