Coryphantha Wohlschlageri
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Coryphanthawohlschlageri is a species of plant in the genus Coryphantha from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet Wohlschlageri honors the Austrian cactus collector Michael Wohlschlager (* 1936) from Moosbrunn .
description
Coryphantha Wohlschlageri grows individually, but sometimes branches dichotomously . The spherical, dark green shoots turn olive green with age. The plants reach heights of growth of 3 to 5 centimeters and the same diameter. The up to 13 millimeters long warts are egg-shaped to short conical in shape. The axillae are bare. The mostly single central spine - on older areoles there can be up to four - is straight, protruding, brownish with a darker tip and 0.8 to 1.5 centimeters long. The nine to eleven whitish to brownish radiant radial spines have a darker tip and lengths of 0.6 to 0.8 centimeters.
The intensely yellow flowers are up to 4 centimeters long and 5 to 6 centimeters in diameter. The cylindrical, olive-green fruits are up to 1.9 centimeters long.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Coryphanthawohlschlageri is widespread on gravelly slopes and plains in the Mexican states of San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas .
The first description by Ernst Holzeis was published in 1990.
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. 161 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 258.
- ^ Ernst Holzeis: Coryphantha Wohlschlageri Holzeis: a new species from San Luis Potosi, Mexico . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 41, Number 3, 1990, pp. 50-52.
- ^ Coryphantha Wohlschlageri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Hernández, HM & Sotomayor, M., 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
Web links
- Photos by Coryphantha Wohlschlageri