Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus

Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus
	Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cereeae
Genre :	Coleocephalocereus
Type :	Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus
Scientific name
	Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus
	Buining & Brederoo

Flowers on Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus

Coleocephalocereus uebelmanniorum

Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus is a species of the genus Coleocephalocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet describes the many ribs.

description

Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus grows with upright, columnar shoots branching at the base . The shoots reach heights of up to 5 meters with diameters of up to 9 centimeters. There are 12 to 25 ribs , which are furrowed over the gray woolly areoles . The thin, straight thorns are yellow. The single central spine, which can be missing, is up to 6 millimeters long, the 5 radial spines up to 11 millimeters long. The approximately 7 ribs, up to 6 centimeters wide and 1.3 meters long, cephalium consists of dense, silky wool and yellow to brownish black bristles.

The bell-shaped to funnel-shaped flowers are up to 2.6 centimeters long and have a diameter of 1.5 centimeters. The top-shaped fruits are shiny reddish, up to 2 centimeters long and have a diameter of 1.5 centimeters.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus is common in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo . The first description was in 1971 by Albert Frederik Hendrik Buining and Arnold J. Brederoo .

Coleocephalocereus uebelmanniorum (PJBraun & Esteves) PJBraun, Esteves & Hofacker 2007 was originally described as a subspecies of Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus , but has since been recombined to an independent species and thus widely accepted in the more recent literature (see also IUCN Red List).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 131 .

Individual evidence

↑ In: Krainz: Die Kakteen . 1971, C IV b.
↑ Braun PJ, Esteves Pereira E, Hofacker A. 2007 Coleocephalocereus uebelmanniorum - a new status for a rock dweller from Brazil. Cact. And. Sukk. 58 (8): 211-215.
↑ Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Braun, P., 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2014.

Web links

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[1] In: Krainz: Die Kakteen . 1971, C IV b.

[2] Braun PJ, Esteves Pereira E, Hofacker A. 2007 Coleocephalocereus uebelmanniorum - a new status for a rock dweller from Brazil. Cact. And. Sukk. 58 (8): 211-215.

[3] Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Braun, P., 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2014.