Cleistocactus roseiflorus
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Cleistocactus roseiflorus is a species of plant in the genus Cleistocactus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet roseiflorus means 'rose-blooming, red-blooming'.
description
Cleistocactus roseiflorus grows columnar, with mostly unbranched shoots and reaches heights of up to 1 meter with diameters of 4 to 5 centimeters. There are 16 to 17 slightly humped ribs . The areoles have a diameter of 2 to 2.5 millimeters. Areoles capable of flowering are larger. The 30 to 40 spines are difficult to distinguish between central and radial spines. They are radiating, whitish yellow to yellow and 5 to 10 millimeters long. Areoles capable of flowering also have brownish thorns, which are sometimes more bristle-like and up to 3.5 centimeters long.
The strongly zygomorphic , bright pink flowers appear near the shoot tip. They are 5 centimeters long and 3 centimeters in diameter. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with brownish hair and bristle-like thorns. The more or less spherical, yellow-green fruits are hairy and reach a diameter of about 1.5 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Cleistocactus roseiflorus is believed to be widespread in northern Peru . It was first described as Akersia roseiflora in 1961 by Albert Frederik Hendrik Buining . Gordon Douglas Rowley placed them in the genus Cleistocactus in 2000 .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 124 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Succulenta . 1961, p. 25.
- ^ British Cactus & Succulent Journal . Volume 18, Number 4, 2000, p. 208.
