Echinocereusreichenbachii subsp. baileyi
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Echinocereusreichenbachii subsp. baileyi is a subspecies of the plant species Echinocereusreichenbachii from the genus Echinocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The botanical name honors Vernon Orlando Bailey (1864–1942), who discovered the species in 1906. Echinocereusreichenbachii subsp. baileyi is hardy .
description
Echinocereusreichenbachii subsp. baileyi has a cylindrical plant body that can grow to heights of up to 20 centimeters with a diameter of up to 5 centimeters. The 12 to 16 ribs are straight or somewhat spiral. The narrow elliptical areoles , which are initially covered with white areole wool, sit on them at a distance of 2 to 3 millimeters . Up to 14 rim spines with a length of 5 to 25 millimeters radiate out of them . These are whitish, yellowish or brownish with a darker tip. The 1 to 3 central spines are up to 3 millimeters long.
The approximately 6 centimeters long flowers appear close to the tip of the shoot. The light purple to purple-colored petals are oblong, spatulate, broad at the top, pointed or frayed. The short stamens are greenish, the anthers are yellow. The stylus is up to 3.5 inches long.
The egg-shaped green fruits are up to 25 millimeters long and up to 20 millimeters wide and contain matt black, spherical to cap-shaped seeds .
Distribution and systematics
Echinocereusreichenbachii subsp. baileyi is common in the US state of Oklahoma in the Wichita Mountains and in neighboring Texas .
It was first described as Echinocereus baileyi in 1909 by Joseph Nelson Rose . Nigel Paul Taylor gave her the status of a subspecies of Echinocereus rangebachii in 1997 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 206 .
- Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape IV . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1984, ISBN 3-437-30383-X , p. 2009 .
- NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape III . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1922, p. 26th f .
- Walther Haage : cacti from A to Z . 3. Edition. Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-494-01142-7 , p. 144 f .
Individual evidence
- ^ Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 12, 1909, p. 403, (online) .
- ↑ Cactaceae Consensus Initiatives Volume 3, 1997, p. 9.
