Weberocereus tunilla

Weberocereus tunilla
	Weberocereus tunilla
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Hylocereeae
Genre :	Weberocereus
Type :	Weberocereus tunilla
Scientific name
	Weberocereus tunilla
	( FACWeber ) Britton & Rose

Weberocereus tunilla is a species of plant in the genus Weberocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet tunilla means 'little tuna'.

description

Weberocereus tunilla grows with climbing, spreading or hanging, irregularly branching shoots that develop numerous aerial roots . The fleshy, two- to six-sided shoots are reddish green and 6 to 23 millimeters in diameter. The shoot edges are entire or serrated. There is a noticeable hump below the areoles . There are four to 20 radiating, hair-like, somewhat curved and cream-colored thorns that become brownish with age. They are thickened onion-shaped at their base and 3 to 5 millimeters long.

The funnel-shaped to bell-shaped, pink, pungent smelling flowers appear individually and are 6 to 7 centimeters long. Your heavily tuberous pericarpel is covered with scales, white wool and four to twelve hair-like thorns. The short, elongated, pink, slightly thorny fruits have a length of 4.5 centimeters and a diameter of 3.5 centimeters. Their flesh is purple in color.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Weberocereus tunilla is distributed in Costa Rica in the province of Cartago at altitudes of 1000 to 2330 meters.

It was first described as Cereus tunilla in 1902 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in the genus Weberocereus in 1909 .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 643 .

Individual evidence

↑ Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle . Volume 8, Paris 1902, p. 460, (online) .
^ The Genus Cereus and its Allies in North America . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 12, Number 10, 1909, p. 432, (online) .
↑ Weberocereus tunilla in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Hammel, B., 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2014.

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[1] Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle . Volume 8, Paris 1902, p. 460, (online) .

[2] The Genus Cereus and its Allies in North America . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 12, Number 10, 1909, p. 432, (online) .

[3] Weberocereus tunilla in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Hammel, B., 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2014.