Cipocereus pusilliflorus

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

Cipocereus pusilliflorus is a species of the genus Cipocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet refers to the small, narrow flowers.

description

Cipocereus pusilliflorus

Cipocereus pusilliflorus grows as a shrub with upright to semi-prostrate, green, frosted shoots and reaches heights of 30 to 50 centimeters. The shoots have a diameter of 4 to 5 centimeters. There are 14 to 18 blunt ribs with little or no notch. The areoles are covered with brown wool. Straight, needle-like and piercing thorns spring from them . The 2 to 4 protruding central spines are often arranged crosswise and 1 to 2 centimeters long. The 10 to 12 radial spines have a length of 3 to 6 millimeters.

The almost vertical flowers appear near the shoot tips and are up to 1.6 centimeters long. Their corolla is pink, the bracts are white. The spherical fruits reach a diameter of 6 to 13 millimeters.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Cipocereus pusilliflorus is widespread in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais near Monte Azul . It was first described as Floribunda pusilliflora in 1979 by Friedrich Ritter . Nigel Paul Taylor (* 1956) and Daniela Cristina Zappi (* 1965) placed them in the genus Cipocereus in 1991 .

Cipocereus pusilliflorus is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Critically Endangered (CR)", d. H. critically endangered, classified.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 113-115 .

Individual evidence

↑ Cacti in South America: Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 1, 1979, pp. 58-59.
↑ Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 86.
↑ cipocereus pusilliflorus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on April 11 of 2010.

Web links

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[1] Cacti in South America: Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 1, 1979, pp. 58-59.

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

[3] reus pusilliflorus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on April 11 of 2010.