Cylindropuntia lindsayi
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Cylindropuntia lindsayi is a species of plant of the genus Cylindropuntia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the American botanist George Edmund Lindsay (1917–2002).
description
Cylindropuntia lindsayi grows shrubby, is dense and compact to almost liana-like with a conspicuously single-shoot growth and reaches heights of 0.4 to 3 meters. The side shoots fall off easily. The very slender green to gray-green, often glaucous shoot sections are purple around the areoles. The shoot sections are 1.5 to 9 inches long and measure 4 to 8 millimeters in diameter. The cream-colored areoles turn gray with age and have 2 to 3 millimeters long, sometimes conspicuous, slightly orange-brown glochids , of which several are often bristle-like and gray. The one to three thorns are present on almost all areoles or are often absent. They are strong, white to gray and have a yellowish tip. The thorns are 1 to 3.7 inches long. Their loose-fitting sheaths are gray to yellowish.
The flowers are light green to greenish yellow. The green to red fruits are fleshy and thorny. They are 1.8 to 2.8 inches long and 7 to 9 millimeters in diameter. The fruits frequently proliferate and are often sterile.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Cylindropuntia lindsayi is distributed from the south of the Mexican state of Baja California to Baja California Sur with the exception of the Cape area at altitudes of 50 to 625 meters.
The first description as Opuntia lindsayi by Jon Paul Rebman was published in 1997. In 2002 he placed the species in the genus Cylindropuntia
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered. The development of the populations is considered stable.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 173 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 138.
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 69, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1997, p. 67.
- ^ Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science . Volume 34, number 1, 2002, p. 45.
- ↑ Cylindropuntia lindsayi in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.1. Posted by: Pinkava, DJ, Baker, M. & Puente, R., 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2014.