Disocactus flagelliformis
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Disocactus flagelliformis is a species of the genus Disocactus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet flagelliformis means 'whip-, flagellar, tendril-shaped'. Spanish common names are “Flor de Látigo”, “Floricuerno”, “Junco”, “Junquillo” and “Nopalillo”.
description
Disocactus flagelliformis grows crawling and / or hanging. The shoots are slender, round in cross-section and gray-green in color. They grow up to 1 meter long and are only 1.2 to 2 centimeters in diameter. They have 8 to 13 low ribs . The closely spaced areoles have 15 to 20 fine, reddish-yellow thorns . The red to purple-pink flowers reach a size of 5 to 8 centimeters in length and 2.5 to 4 centimeters in diameter. They appear laterally and are somewhat curved and zygomorphic upwards . The fruits are red, spherical to bristly and 1 centimeter in diameter.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Disocactus flagelliformis is common in the Mexican states of Guanajuato , Hidalgo , Mexico , Oaxaca , Puebla , Querétaro , San Luis Potosí and Veracruz and occurs at altitudes above 2000 m.
It was first described as Cactus flagelliformis in 1753 by Carl von Linné . Wilhelm Barthlott introduced the species to Disocactus in 1991 .
Synonyms are the following described species and varieties: Cactus flagelliformis L. (1753), Cereus flagelliformis (L.) Miller (1768), Aporocactus flagelliformis (L.) Lem. (1860), Cereus leptophis DC. (1828), Cereus flagelliformis var. Leptophis (DC.) K. Schum. (1897), Aporocactus leptophis (DC.) Britton & Rose (1909), Aporocactus flagelliformis var. Leptophis (DC.) PVHeath (1992), Cereus flagelliformis Zucc. (1836), and Aporocactus flagelliformis (Zucc.) Lem. (1860).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT)", d. H. listed as low risk.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 184 .
- Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 25 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 84.
- ↑ Species Plantarum . 1: 467 (1753) (online)
- ↑ Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 87.
- ↑ Disocactus flagelliformis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Hernández, HM, Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. & Cházaro, M., 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
