Cleistocactus granditessellatus
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Cleistocactus granditessellatus is a species of plant in the genus Cleistocactus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). Thespecific epithet granditessellatus means 'chessboard-like large cubes'.
description
Cleistocactus granditessellatus grows as a shrub with few branched, prostrate to ascending, green shoots that reach lengths of over 1 meter with diameters of 2.5 to 5 centimeters. There are 6 to 7 humped ribs , which are divided into oblong hexagonal fields by transverse furrows. Usually there is a vertical furrow above the areoles 7 to 10 millimeters apart . The 5 to 13 thorns are brown to gray with a brown tip. The central spine, which can be absent, sometimes there are two, is sublet, protruding and 1 to 4 centimeters long. The sub-like to needle-shaped, protruding radial spines are about 5 millimeters long.
The tubular to funnel-shaped flowers appear laterally and have a crooked edge. They are 8 to 9 centimeters long and reach 4 to 5 centimeters in diameter. Your pericarpel is thickly woolly long brown to gray. The flower tube is loosely to densely covered with white to brown wool. The spherical, greenish, hairy fruits reach a diameter of 2 to 3 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Cleistocactus granditessellatus is common in the Peruvian regions of La Libertad and Ancash . It was first described as Loxanthocereus granditessellatus in 1957 by Werner Rauh and Curt Backeberg . Beat Ernst Leuenberger placed them in the genus Cleistocactus in 2002 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . With a foreword by Wilhelm Barthlott and an article by Roger Brown on cactus cultivation and care. Translated from English, supplemented and revised by Urs Eggli. Ulmer , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 119 (English: The cactus family . Portland 2004. Translated by Urs Eggli ).