Cephalocereus nizandensis
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Cephalocereus nizandensis is a species of plant in the genus Cephalocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Cephalocereus nizandensis grows with upright, cylindrical, constricted, initially not branched, bright green shoots and reaches heights of 2 to 3 meters with a diameter of 12 to 15 centimeters. There are 25 to 28 blunt ribs . The about 6 upward, thick, stiff central spines are yellow and up to 1 centimeter long. The 16 whitish yellow radial spines are very slender, flexible and 1.5 to 3 centimeters long. The terminal pseudocephalium consists of yellowish brown, silky hair and 2 to 3 centimeters long thorns.
The tubular to bell-shaped flowers are pink in color and up to 4 centimeters in length. Your pericarpel is covered with small, tapering, triangular scales and flexible hair.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Cephalocereus nizandensis is common in the Mexican state of Oaxaca .
The first description as Neodawsonia nizandensis was published in 1959 by Helia Bravo Hollis and Thomas Baillie MacDougall . Franz Buxbaum placed them in the genus Cephalocereus in 1965 .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. listed as endangered.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 100-101 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anales del Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad nacional de Mexico . Volume 29, 1959, p. 82.
- ↑ Cacti and other succulents . Volume 16, Number 3, 1965, p. 45.
- ↑ Cephalocereus nizandensis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Terrazas, T., 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2014 ..