Disocactus martianus
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Disocactus martianus is a species of the genus Disocactus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius .
description
Disocactus martianus grows creeping, occasionally forming lithophytic with aerial roots. The individual shoots are up to 1.5 meters long and up to 2.5 centimeters thick. The 8 to 10 wart-shaped ribs are fenced off by 3 to 4 brown central spines. The 6 to 10 radial spines are light yellowish and only 5 to 7 millimeters in size. Bright red day flowers with a size of 10 to 12 centimeters in diameter and a length of 5 to 7 centimeters alternate throughout the summer. The green, round fruits are up to 2 centimeters in size.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Disocactus martianus is common in the Mexican state of Oaxaca .
It was first described as Cereus martianus in 1837 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer . Wilhelm Barthlott introduced the species to Disocactus in 1991 .
The following species and varieties are synonyms : Cereus martianus Zucc. (1832), Eriocereus martianus Riccob. (1909), Aporocactus martianus Britton & Rose (1920), Aporocactus conzattii Britton & Rose (1920), Cereus conzattii (Britton & Rose) A. Berger (1929) and Aporocactus martianus var. Conzattii (Britton & Rose) PVHeath (1992) .
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 Cactus Family . Timber Press, Portland (Oregon) 2001, ISBN 0-88192-498-9 , pp. 224 .
- Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. Volume II: Cereoideae: Hylocereeae - Cereeae [Austrocereinae] . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1983, p. 821 .
- Alwin Berger : Cacti - instructions for culture and knowledge of the most important introduced species . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1929, p. 109 .
- NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1923, p. 220 ( online ).
- Karl Schumann : Complete description of the cacti (Monographia cactacearum) . J. Neumann, Neudamm 1899, p. 143 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ National Botanic Garden of Belgium - History-Online
- ↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 110, (online)
- ↑ Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 88.
- ↑ Disocactus martianus in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Hernández, HM, Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. & Cházaro, M., 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2014.