Austrocylindropuntia pachypus
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Austrocylindropuntia pachypus is a species of plant in the genus Austrocylindropuntia from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet pachypus is derived from the Greek words pachys for 'thick' and pous for 'foot' and refers to the long, thickened pericarpel of the flowers.
description
Austrocylindropuntia pachypus grows individually, has little or no branching at the base. A few twigs are formed higher up on the shoot, reaching heights of up to 1 meter. The shoot sections have numerous, conspicuous, spirally arranged humps and have a diameter of up to 8 centimeters. Up to 20 or more wiry thorns up to 2 centimeters long arise from the large, closely spaced areoles located on it . Some of the central spines are longer.
The bright red flowers are up to 7 inches long. Your pericarpel looks like a small side shoot.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Austrocylindropuntia pachypus is widespread in the Peruvian regions of Ancash and Lima on the Pacific Andean slopes at altitudes of 1350 meters to 2400 meters.
The first description as Opuntia pachypus by Karl Moritz Schumann was published in 1904. Curt Backeberg placed the species in the genus Austrocylindropuntia in 1942 . Further nomenclature synonyms are Cylindropuntia pachypus (K.Schum.) Backeb. (1936) and Maihueniopsis pachypus (K.Schum.) R. Kiesling (1998).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT)", d. H. listed as low risk.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . With a foreword by Wilhelm Barthlott and an article by Roger Brown on cactus cultivation and care. Translated from English, supplemented and revised by Urs Eggli. Ulmer , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 87 (English: The cactus family . Portland 2004. Translated by Urs Eggli ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 175.
- ↑ K. Schumann: New and little known cacti from the Andes of South America. III. In: Monthly for cactus science . Volume 14, Number 2, 1904, pp. 26-29 (online) .
- ↑ Cactaceae. Yearbooks of the German Cactus Society 1941 . Part 2, 1942, p. 13.
- ↑ Austrocylindropuntia pachypus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ostalaza, C., Cáceres, F. & Roque, J., 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
