Escobaria deserti

Escobaria deserti
	Escobaria deserti
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Escobaria
Type :	Escobaria deserti
Scientific name
	Escobaria deserti
	( Engelm. ) Buxb.

Escobaria deserti is a species of plant in the genus Escobaria from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet deserti comes from Latin and means 'from the desert'.

description

Escobaria deserti grows individually. The cylindrical shoots reach heights of 8 to 15 centimeters and diameters of 6 to 9 centimeters. Your warts are 15 to 18 millimeters long. The thorns are difficult to differentiate into central and radial spines. The four to six strong, white central spines have a red tip and lengths of 1.2 to 2 centimeters. The twelve to 20 white radial spines are 1 to 1.2 inches long.

The yellow-green to straw-yellow to rust-colored or brown flowers have a diameter of 2.5 to 4.5 centimeters. The fruits are up to 2.5 inches long.

Systematics and distribution

Escobaria deserti is common in the United States in southern Nevada , eastern California , southwest Utah, and northwest Arizona .

The first description as Mammillaria deserti by George Engelmann was published in 1880. Franz Buxbaum placed the species in the genus Escobaria in 1951 .

Further nomenclature synonyms are Cactus radiosus var. Deserti (Engelm.) JMCoult. (1894), Mammillaria radiosa var. Deserti (Engelm.) K.Schum. (1898), Mammillaria radiosa f. deserti (Engelm.) Schelle (1907), Coryphantha deserti (Engelm.) Britton & Rose (1923), Mammillaria arizonica var. deserti (Engelm.) Davidson & Moxley (1923), Mammillaria vivipara var. deserti (Engelm.) LDBenson ( 1944), Coryphantha vivipara var. Deserti (Engelm.) WTMarshall (1950), Coryphantha chlorantha var. Deserti (Engelm.) Backeb. (1961) and Escobaria vivipara (Engelm.) DRHunt (1978).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 273-274 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 65.
^ Sereno Watson : Geological Survey of California . Volume 2: Botany. Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1880, pp. 449-450 (online) .
^ Franz Buxbaum: The phylogeny of the North American chinocacteen. Trib. Euechinocactinae F. Buxb. In: Austrian Botanical Journal . Volume 98, No. 1-2, 1951, p. 78.

Web links

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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. 65.

[2] Sereno Watson : Geological Survey of California . Volume 2: Botany. Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1880, pp. 449-450 (online) .

[3] Franz Buxbaum: The phylogeny of the North American chinocacteen. Trib. Euechinocactinae F. Buxb. In: Austrian Botanical Journal . Volume 98, No. 1-2, 1951, p. 78.