Cintia knizei
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Cintia knizei is the only plant species of the monotypic genus Cintia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The genus is named after the city of Cinti in the Bolivian province of Nor Cinti .
description
Cintia knizei grows individually, has a spherical, green to brown-green, thornless plant body 3 to 5 centimeters in diameter, with semicircular arched cusps. Their roots are carrot-like, bulbous and up to 10 centimeters long. The woolly areoles have sunk between the podaria.
The wheel-shaped, yellow flowers appear from young areoles near the apex of the plants and are 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter. The bare fruits are spindle-shaped and contain small, black seeds .
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Cintia knizei was discovered in 1969 by Karel Kníže near Otavi in the Bolivian Department of Potosi at an altitude of about 4000 meters and was provisionally named as Cintia napina (field number KK1768). Further populations have been found near the town of Lecori at 4200 meters (prov. Name Cintia subterranea , field number KK1815). Their distribution area are the high Andes . The species was first described in 1995 by Jan Říha .
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. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ K. Knize, J. Riha: Cintia Knize et Riha: novy kaktus stredni Bolivie . In: Kaktusy . Volume 31, Brno 1995, p. 37.
- ↑ Rebutia cintia in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Lowry, M., 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
