Cereus haageanus

Cereus haageanus
Cereus haageanus
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Cactoideae Tribe : Cereeae Genre : Cereus Type : Cereus haageanus
Scientific name
Cereus haageanus
( Backeb. ) NPTaylor

Cereus haageanus is a species of plant in the genus Cereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German cactus gardener Walther Haage .

description

Cereus haageanus grows as a shrub with richly branched, crooked to ascending shoots and reaches heights of up to 3 meters or more. The narrow, cylindrical, blue-green shoots are not marbled and taper towards their tips. They have a diameter of 2 to 3 centimeters. There are about five rounded ribs that are slightly divided into humps. The small areoles on it are white. The five to eight thin, blackish brown thorns are up to 2 millimeters long. The lowest of them reach lengths of up to 4 millimeters.

blossom

The white to greenish white flowers are up to 12 centimeters long. The fruits are ellipsoidal.

Distribution and systematics

Cereus haageanus is common in Paraguay .

The first description as Monvillea haageana was published in 1948 by Curt Backeberg . Nigel Paul Taylor placed them in the genus Cereus in 1991 .

proof

literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 105 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 103.
2. ↑ Succulents. Yearbooks of the Swiss Cactus Society . Volume 2, Zurich 1948, p. 54.
3. ↑ Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 85.

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