Dendrocereus undulosus
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Dendrocereus undulosus is a species of plant in the genus Dendrocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Dendrocereus undulosus grows tree-like, is richly branched and reaches heights of up to 10 meters with a strong, upright, heavily thorny trunk. The shoot sections are light to cloudy green. The 3 to 5 wing-like ribs are deeply undulated. The needle-like, straight, almost upright, bright thorns are up to 4 centimeters long.
The funnel-shaped, white flowers have a narrow flower tube and are 10 to 20 centimeters long with a diameter of 5 centimeters. Your pericarpel and the tube are almost bare. The spherical to pear-shaped, yellow fruits are hard-fleshed and have a diameter of up to 5 centimeters.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Dendrocereus undulosus is common in Haiti . The first description as Cereus undulosus was published in 1828 by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Dendrocereus in 1925 .
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. 177 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 3, 1828, p. 467, online .
- ^ Journal of the New York Botanical Garden . Volume 26, 1925, p. 220.
- ↑ Dendrocereus undulosus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: Taylor, NP, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2014.