Cipocereus laniflorus
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Cipocereus laniflorus is a species of the genus Cipocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Cipocereus laniflorus grows as a shrub with columnar, olive-green shoots branching from the base , which are often bluish at the beginning. There are 5 to 7 triangular ribs . Long white hairs emerge from the light brown to black areoles . The areoles flow together over time and form a continuous band on the ribs. The dark brown thorns are translucent. The 7 to 9 central spines are protruding and 1.5 to 3 inches long. The 10 to 14 radial spines lie on the shoots and have a length of up to 1 centimeter.
The white to light creamy yellow, woolly and thorny flowers are up to 7 centimeters long. The egg-shaped, ribbed, more or less purple-blue fruits are also covered with wool and thorns.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Cipocereus laniflorus is distributed in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais ( Serra do Caraça ). It was first described in 1997 by Nigel Paul Taylor (* 1956) and Daniela Cristina Zappi (* 1965).
Cipocereus laniflorus is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. endangered, classified.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 113 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cactaceae Consensus Initiatives . Volume 3, 1997, p. 7.
- ↑ cipocereus laniflorus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on April 11 of 2010.