Echinocereus fendleri
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Echinocereus fendleri is a species of plant in the genus Echinocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet fendleri honors the botanist and plant collector August Fendler from Germany. Trivial names are "Fendler's Hedgehog Cactus" and "Fendler Needle-Spined Hedgehog".
description
Echinocereus fendleri usually grows individually, but occasionally forms loose groups with up to ten shoots . The green, flaccid, egg-shaped to short cylindrical shoots, hardly covered by the thorns, are 7.5 to 25 centimeters long and have a diameter of 3.8 to 6.2 centimeters. There are eight to ten ribs that are not humped. The single dark central spine , which can also be missing, is straight or slightly curved and becomes lighter with age. It has a length of 1.2 to 3.8 centimeters. The five to nine light-colored, spread out, straight radial spines are 0.9 to 1.2 inches long.
The funnel-shaped flowers are magenta in color. They appear in the upper half of the shoots, are 5 to 6.2 inches long and reach the same diameter. The spherical, fleshy, initially green fruits turn red later.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Echinocereus fendleri is distributed in the United States in the states of Arizona , New Mexico , Colorado, and Texas, as well as in the neighboring Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua .
The first description as Cereus fendleri by George Engelmann was published in 1849. Francisco Seitz (1831–1909) placed the species in 1870 in the genus Echinocereus . A nomenclature synonym is Cereus cinerascens var. Fendleri (Engelm.) Bois (1928).
The following subspecies are distinguished:
- Echinocereus fendleri subsp. fendleri
- Echinocereus fendleri subsp. hempelii (Fobe) W. Flower
- Echinocereus fendleri subsp. rectispinus (Peebles) NPTaylor
A synonym for the ancestral species Echinocereus fendleri subsp. hempelii is Echinocereus hempelii Fobe (1897).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
use
The fruits were used as fruit by the Hopi .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 197 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 82.
- ^ In: Asa Gray: Plantae Fendlerianae Novi-Mexicanae: An Account of a Collection of Plants made chiefly in the Vicinity of Santa Fé, New Mexico, by Augustus Fendler; with Descriptions of the New Species, Critical Remarks, and Characters of other undescribed or little known Plants from surrounding Regions . In: Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 2nd episode, volume 4, number 1, 1849, p. 51 (online) .
- ↑ Catalogus Cactearum Cultarum . 1870, p. 11.
- ↑ Echinocereus fendleri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Heil, K., Terry, M. & Corral-Díaz, R., 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
