Consolea picardae
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Consolea picardae is a species of plant in the genus Consolea from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Spiritan priest and biologist Louis Picarda (1848–1901), who collected plants in the Caribbean.
description
Consolea picardae grows upright, tree-shaped with a branched crown and reaches heights of 3 to 10 meters. The non-articulated trunk is initially elliptical in cross-section and becomes circular with age. It is densely armed with thorns. The elongated to lanceolate, glossy dark green shoot sections are weakly humped and (almost) thornless. They are 12 to 35 inches long, 5 to 9 inches wide and 4 to 9 millimeters thick. Thorns are usually absent on the lateral and youngest shoot sections.
The yellow or orange flowers turn red as they fade. They have a diameter of 2.5 to 4.5 centimeters. Your pericarpel is covered with areoles that have no thorns. The egg-shaped to ellipsoidal-egg-shaped fruits are slightly compressed at the sides. They reach a length of 5 to 9 centimeters and a diameter of 4 to 6.5 centimeters.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Consolea picardae is common in the Dominican Republic and Haiti .
It was first described as Opuntia picardae in 1919 by Ignaz Urban . Alberto E. Areces-Mallea placed it in 2000 in the genus Consolea .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is called " Data Deficient (DD) ", i. H. with insufficient data.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 134 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henri Stehlé: Flore de la Guadeloupe et Dépendances et de la Martinique . Volume 4. Imprimerie catholique 1943, pp. 562-565.
- ^ Repertory Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 16, Berlin 1919, p. 35.
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 72, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2000, p. 42.
- ↑ Consolea picardae in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.3. Posted by: Negrón-Ortiz, V. & Griffith, P., 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
