Cipocereus bradei

Cipocereus bradei
	Cipocereus bradei
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cereeae
Genre :	Cipocereus
Type :	Cipocereus bradei
Scientific name
	Cipocereus bradei
	( Backeb. & Voll ) NPTaylor & Zappi

Cipocereus bradei is a species of plant in the genus Cipocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German botanist Alexander Curt Brade (1881–1971), who worked for a long time at the Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro.

description

Cipocereus bradei grows with branched shoots that reach a height of up to 3.5 meters and a diameter of 8 to 9 centimeters. The shoots with blue frost at the beginning are later grayish blue. There are 8 to 9 slightly arched, about 1 centimeter high and up to 2.5 centimeter wide ribs , which are sharply furrowed across between the oval, almost bare areoles . The thorns are variable and often completely absent on older shoots. The 1 to 2 stinging, black central spines are directed downwards or upwards and up to 3.5 centimeters long. The 4 to 5 radial spines are brownish and have a length of up to 1.5 centimeters.

The flowers are up to 7.5 inches long. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are frosted blue. The spherical, heavily frosted blue fruits are smooth and bare. They have a diameter of up to 5.5 centimeters.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Cipocereus bradei is common in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the Diamantina region. It was first described as Pilocereus bradei in 1942 by Curt Backeberg and Otto Voll. Nigel Paul Taylor (* 1956) and Daniela Cristina Zappi (* 1965) placed them in the genus Cipocereus in 1991 .

Cipocereus bradei was named " Endangered (EN) " in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2002 . H. endangered, classified. In 2013 the species is classified as " Vulnerable (VU) ", i. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 113 .
Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape IV . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1984, ISBN 3-437-30383-X , p. 2403 .

Individual evidence

↑ Cactaceae. Yearbooks of the German Cactus Society . P. 78, Berlin 1942
↑ Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 86.
↑ Cipocereus bradei in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Taylor, NP & Zappi, D., 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2014.

Web links

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[1] Cactaceae. Yearbooks of the German Cactus Society . P. 78, Berlin 1942

[2] Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 86.

[3] Cipocereus bradei in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Taylor, NP & Zappi, D., 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2014.