Stenocereus alamosensis

Stenocereus alamosensis
	Stenocereus alamosensis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Stenocereus
Type :	Stenocereus alamosensis
Scientific name
	Stenocereus alamosensis
	( JMCoult. ) ACGibson & KEHorak

Stenocereus alamosensis is a species of the genus Stenocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet alamosensis means 'from the place where Alamos was found in Mexico'. Spanish trivial names are "Cina", "Nacido", "Sina" and "Tasajo".

description

Stenocereus alamosensis grows shrubby with often arched, columnar, bluish green shoots up to 8 centimeters in diameter and reaches heights of 2 to 4 meters. There are five to eight, slightly arched ribs that are up to 1 centimeter high. The one to four, strong, protruding, whitish central spines are up to 4.5 centimeters long. The eleven to 18 radial spines are also whitish and have a length of 1.3 to 2.2 centimeters.

The tubular, red flowers open during the day. They are 7 to 10 centimeters long and 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter. Your bracts are bent back. The spherical, red fruits are usually bare when ripe. They have a persistent flower remnant and reach a diameter of 3 to 4.5 centimeters.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Stenocereus alamosensis is common in the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa at altitudes from 0 to 800 m.

It was first described as Cereus alamosensis in 1896 by John Merle Coulter . Arthur Charles Gibson and Karl E. Horak placed them in 1979 in the genus Stenocereus . A synonym is among other things Cereus sonorensis Runge ex K.Schum. (1901).

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. 599 .

Individual evidence

^ JM Coulter: Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Echinocactus, Cereus, and Opuntia . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 3, 1896, p. 406, online .
^ Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden . Volume 65, Number 4, 1979, p. 1006.
↑ Stenocereus alamosensis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Burquez Montijo, A., Felger, RS & Van Devender, T., 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2014.

Web links

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[1] JM Coulter: Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Echinocactus, Cereus, and Opuntia . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 3, 1896, p. 406, online .

[2] Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden . Volume 65, Number 4, 1979, p. 1006.

[3] Stenocereus alamosensis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Burquez Montijo, A., Felger, RS & Van Devender, T., 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2014.