Weingartia neocumingii

Weingartia neocumingii
	Weingartia neocumingii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Weingartia
Type :	Weingartia neocumingii
Scientific name
	Weingartia neocumingii
	Backeb.

Weingartia neocumingii is a species of plant in the genus Weingartia from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Weingartia neocumingii grows individually with depressed spherical to spherical, light green to dark green bodies and sprouts a little with age. The bodies reach the same height with diameters of up to 30 centimeters and have fiber roots. The ribs are barely pronounced. The 11 to 28 spines are stiff, protruding, straight to slightly curved. They are gray to gray-brown or yellow and usually have a darker tip. The up to 4 central spines, which can also be missing, are 1.5 to 4 centimeters long, the 8 to 24 radial spines have a length of 7 to 30 millimeters.

The yellow to yellow-red or brown-red, brick-red, dark red or rarely white flowers are funnel-shaped and appear like a wreath near the apex or on the shoulder of the body. They are up to 3.5 centimeters long and have a diameter of 4 centimeters. Often up to 4 flowers appear from an areole . The teardrop-shaped fruits are reddish brown to greenish or brownish. They are covered with scales and otherwise bare. When fully ripe, the fruits are thin-skinned and dry and disintegrate quickly.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Weingartia neocumingii is distributed in Bolivia in the Chuquisaca , Cochabamba , Potosí and Santa Cruz departments at altitudes of 2000 to 3000 meters.

The first description by Curt Backeberg was published in 1950.

Nomenclatory synonyms are Gymnocalycium neocumingii (Backeb.) Hutchison , Rebutia neocumingii (Backeb.) DRHunt , Sulcorebutia neocumingii (Backeb.) FHBrandt , Gymnorebutia neocumingii (Backeb.) Doweld . Another synonym is Echinocactus cumingii Regel & Klein (1860, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 644-645 .

Individual evidence

↑ Cacti and other succulents . Volume 2, number 1, 1950, p. 2.
^ FEL Fischer, CA Meyer, ER von Trautvetter Index Seminum, quae Hortus Botanicus Imperialis Petropolitanus per Mutua Commutatione offer. Accedunt Animadversiones Botanicae Nonnullae . St. Petersburg 1860, p. 48.
↑ Rebutia neocumingii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: Lowry, M. & Carr, J., 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Weingartia neocumingii - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Cacti and other succulents . Volume 2, number 1, 1950, p. 2.

[2] FEL Fischer, CA Meyer, ER von Trautvetter Index Seminum, quae Hortus Botanicus Imperialis Petropolitanus per Mutua Commutatione offer. Accedunt Animadversiones Botanicae Nonnullae . St. Petersburg 1860, p. 48.

[3] Rebutia neocumingii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: Lowry, M. & Carr, J., 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2014.