Echinocereus nivosus

Echinocereus nivosus
	Echinocereus nivosus
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Echinocereus
Type :	Echinocereus nivosus
Scientific name
	Echinocereus nivosus
	Glass & RAFoster

Echinocereus nivosus is a species of the genus Echinocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet nivosus comes from Latin and means 'snowy, thickly white-haired'.

description

Echinocereus nivosus has many branches and forms cushions up to 12 centimeters high and 30 centimeters in diameter. The light green egg-shaped to short cylindrical shoots have a diameter of up to 4 centimeters and are almost completely covered by the thorns. There are ten to fifteen ribs that are slightly humped. The slender thorns are mostly glassy white. There are ten to 15 central spines up to 2 centimeters long. The 25 to 40 radiant radial spines are 4 to 9 millimeters long.

The slender funnel-shaped flowers are deep pink to deep magenta and appear at the tips of the shoots. They are up to 6 inches long and 4 to 6 inches in diameter. The reddish lavender-colored fruits are almost spherical and thorny.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Echinocereus nivosus is distributed in the southeast of the Mexican state Coahuila in a small area above 2000 meters.

The first description by Charles Edward Glass and Robert Alan Foster was published in 1978.

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. listed as critically endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 200 .

Individual evidence

^ Charles Glass, Robert Foster: Echinocereus nivosus, a new species from the Sierre de Parras . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 50, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1978 pp. 18-19.
↑ Echinocereus nivosus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Fitz Maurice, B, Sotomayor, M., Fitz Maurice, WA, Hernández, HM & Smith, M., 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2014.

[1] Charles Glass, Robert Foster: Echinocereus nivosus, a new species from the Sierre de Parras . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 50, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1978 pp. 18-19.

[2] Echinocereus nivosus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Fitz Maurice, B, Sotomayor, M., Fitz Maurice, WA, Hernández, HM & Smith, M., 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2014.