Acanthocalycium spiniflorum

Acanthocalycium spiniflorum
	Acanthocalycium spiniflorum
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Acanthocalycium
Type :	Acanthocalycium spiniflorum
Scientific name
	Acanthocalycium spiniflorum
	( K.Schum. ) Backeb.

Acanthocalycium spiniflorum is a species of plant in the genus Acanthocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet spiniflorus is derived from the Latin words spina for 'sting' or 'thorn' and florus for '-blutig' and refers to the scales on the flower tube of the species.

description

Acanthocalycium spiniflorum usually grows individually with spherical to slightly elongated shoots and reaches heights of up to 60 centimeters with diameters of 10 to 15 centimeters. There are 16 to 20, up to 1 centimeter high ribs , which are somewhat divided into cusps . The 10 to 20 straight, needle-like thorns are flexible, yellowish to brown and have a darker tip. They turn gray with age.

Buds on Acanthocalycium spiniflorum with the scales characteristic of the genus, which change into pointed thorns

The funnel-shaped to bell-shaped flowers are pink to white, up to 4 centimeters in length and have the same diameter.

Systematics and distribution

Acanthocalycium spiniflorum is found in the Argentine provinces of Córdoba and San Luis at altitudes of 1000 to 1500 meters.

The first description as Echinocactus spiniflorus by Karl Moritz Schumann was published in 1903. Curt Backeberg placed them in the genus Acanthocalycium in 1936 .

Further nomenclature synonyms are Echinopsis spiniflora (K.Schum.) A.Berger (1929), Spinicalycium spiniflorum (K.Schum.) Frič (1935, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 43.1) and Lobivia spiniflora (K.Schum.) Rausch (1987) A synonym is also u. a. Acanthocalycium violaceum (Werderm.) Backeb. (1936).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 68 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 225.
↑ Karl Schumann : Complete description of the cacti (Monographia cactacearum) . J. Neumann, Neudamm 1903, p. 88 .
^ Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 226 .

Web links

Commons : Acanthocalycium spiniflorum - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 225.

[2] Karl Schumann : Complete description of the cacti (Monographia cactacearum) . J. Neumann, Neudamm 1903, p. 88 .

[3] Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 226 .