Echinocereus berlandieri

Echinocereus berlandieri
	Echinocereus berlandieri
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Echinocereus
Type :	Echinocereus berlandieri
Scientific name
	Echinocereus berlandieri
	( Engelm. ) Hort. Haage

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Echinocereus berlandieri is a species of plant in the genus Echinocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet berlandieri honors the Belgian plant collector Jean Louis Berlandier (1805-1851).

description

Echinocereus berlandieri has many shoots and forms groups of up to 1 meter in diameter. The dark green to slightly purple-green, cylindrical shoots tapering towards their base are prostrate or have upright tips. They are 5 to 60 centimeters long and 1.5 to 3 centimeters in diameter. There are five to seven, scarcely indicated, humped ribs . The one to three strong, outwardly directed, yellowish to dark brown central spines have a length of 2.5 to 5 centimeters. The six to nine whitish radial spines are 1 to 2.5 inches long.

The broad, funnel-shaped flowers are pink to reddish purple and appear below the shoot tips. They are 7 to 8 inches long and can reach a diameter of up to 7 inches. The egg-shaped, green fruits are 2 to 2.5 centimeters long. The thorns on it fall off.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Echinocereus berlandieri is distributed in the United States in the south of the state of Texas and in the neighboring Mexican states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas at altitudes of up to 600 meters.

The first description as Cereus berlandieri by George Engelmann was published in 1856. Friedrich Adolph Haage placed the species in the genus Echinocereus in 1859 . A nomenclature synonym is Echinocereus blanckii var. Berlandieri (Engelm.) Backeb. (1960).

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. 192 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 26.
↑ George Engelmann: Synopsis of the Cactaceae of the Territory of the United States and Adjacent Regions . In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Volume 3, 1856, p. 286 (online) .
^ Friedrich Adolph Haage: Cacteen directory . 1859, p. 19.
↑ Echinocereus berlandieri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Heil, K. & Terry, M., 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2014.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 26.

[2] George Engelmann: Synopsis of the Cactaceae of the Territory of the United States and Adjacent Regions . In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Volume 3, 1856, p. 286 (online) .

[3] Friedrich Adolph Haage: Cacteen directory . 1859, p. 19.

[4] Echinocereus berlandieri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Heil, K. & Terry, M., 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2014.