Aztec hintonii

Aztec hintonii
	Aztec hintonii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Aztec
Type :	Aztec hintonii
Scientific name
	Aztec hintonii
	Glass & WAFitz Maur.

Aztekium hintonii is a species of the genus Aztekium in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet hintonii honors the Mexican farmer and plant collector George Sebastián Hinton (* 1949), who discovered the species.

description

Aztekium hintonii grows individually with cloudy gray-green, spherical to short columnar bodies that reach a diameter of up to 10 centimeters. The 10 to 15 very sharp-edged and clearly defined ribs have numerous very fine, transverse wrinkles on their flanks. The ribs are 6 to 12 millimeters high and 3 to 4 millimeters wide. They get wider with age. The 2 thorns are strongly curved and up to 13 millimeters long. The magenta-colored flowers reach a diameter of 1 to 3 centimeters.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aztekium hintonii is widespread in the Mexican state of Nuevo León and grows on gypsum rocks.

It was first described in 1992 by Charles Edward Glass and Walter Alfred Fitz Maurice .

Aztekium hintonii is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 90 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 109.
^ Charles Edward Glass, Walter Alfred Fitz Maurice: Nuevos taxa de cactaceas de Nuevo Leon, Mexico . In: Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas . Volume 37, Number 1, 1992, pp. 11-20.
↑ Aztekium hintonii in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2013. Posted by Fitz Maurice, B, Fitz Maurice, WA, Hernández, HM, Sotomayor, M. & Smith, M., 2009. Accessed September 22, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Aztekium hintonii - 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. 109.

[2] Charles Edward Glass, Walter Alfred Fitz Maurice: Nuevos taxa de cactaceas de Nuevo Leon, Mexico . In: Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas . Volume 37, Number 1, 1992, pp. 11-20.

[3] Aztekium hintonii in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2013. Posted by Fitz Maurice, B, Fitz Maurice, WA, Hernández, HM, Sotomayor, M. & Smith, M., 2009. Accessed September 22, 2013.