Cleistocactus parviflorus
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Cleistocactus parviflorus is a species of plant in the genus Cleistocactus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet parviflorus means 'small-flowered'.
description
Cleistocactus parviflorus grows shrubby with few, upright, green shoots branching at the base and reaches heights of up to 3 meters with diameters of up to 4 centimeters. There are 12 to 15 clearly notched ribs . The different colored thorns are brown to yellowish to greenish. The 1 to 3 central spines are up to 2.5 centimeters long, the 5 to 9 radial spines up to 4 millimeters long.
The straight, red flowers are 3 to 5 inches long. The yellow fruits have a diameter of up to 1 centimeter.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Cleistocactus parviflorus is distributed in the Bolivian departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba at altitudes of 1400 to 3000 meters. It was first described as Cereus parviflorus in 1897 by Karl Moritz Schumann . Robert Roland-Gosselin placed them in the genus Cleistocactus in 1904 .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 123 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ General description of the cacti . 1897, p. 100.
- ^ Bulletin de la Société Centrale d'Agriculture, d'Horticulture et d'Acclimatation de Nice . Volume 44, Number 1, 1904, p. 32.
- ↑ Cleistocactus parviflorus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Lowry, M., 2010. Retrieved February 22, 2014.
