Echinocereus schmollii

Echinocereus schmollii
	Echinocereus schmollii; flower
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Echinocereus
Type :	Echinocereus schmollii
Scientific name
	Echinocereus schmollii
	( Wine . ) NPTaylor

Echinocereus schmollii is a species of plant in the genus Echinocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Echinocereus schmollii usually grows individually with cylindrical, somewhat purple to blackish shoots that reach lengths of up to 25 centimeters with a diameter of 1 centimeter. Their roots are somewhat thickened. There are nine to ten rounded ribs that are humped. The up to 35 hair-like thorns are more or less pink in color and give the shoots a woolly appearance. They become white or darker and are up to 7 millimeters long.

The funnel-shaped flowers are bright pink and appear near the shoot tips. They are 3 to 5 centimeters long and can reach a diameter of up to 6 centimeters. The egg-shaped to spherical, juicy fruits are slightly purple-green in color.

ripe fruits

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Echinocereus schmollii is common in the Mexican state of Querétaro . The first description as Cereus schmollii was published in 1931 by Wilhelm Weingart . Nigel Paul Taylor placed them in the genus Echinocereus in 1985 . The species belongs to the Wilcoxia section .

Echinocereus schmollii is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species . In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 208 .

Individual evidence

↑ Monthly of the German Cactus Society . Volume 11, 1931, 251-252.
↑ Nigel P. Taylor: The Genus Echinocereus . Kew Magazine Monograph, Timber Press 1985, ISBN 0-88192-052-5 , p. 140.
↑ Echinocereus schmollii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Sánchez, E., Guadalupe Martínez, J. & Bárcenas Luna, R., 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Echinocereus schmollii - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Monthly of the German Cactus Society . Volume 11, 1931, 251-252.

[2] Nigel P. Taylor: The Genus Echinocereus . Kew Magazine Monograph, Timber Press 1985, ISBN 0-88192-052-5 , p. 140.

[3] Echinocereus schmollii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Sánchez, E., Guadalupe Martínez, J. & Bárcenas Luna, R., 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.