Facheiroa ulei

Facheiroa ulei
	Facheiroa ulei
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Facheiroa
Type :	Facheiroa ulei
Scientific name
	Facheiroa ulei
	( Gürke ) Werderm.

Facheiroa ulei is a species of plant in the genus Facheiroa from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German botanist and explorer Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule, who traveled to Brazil at the end of the 19th century.

description

Facheiroa ulei grows shrubby with up to 40 branches and reaches heights of up to 5 meters. The dark to gray-green shoots have a diameter of 5 to 7 centimeters. There are ribs 15 to 20, 6 to 8 millimeters high . The reddish brown spines differ in 2 to 4 central spines 1 to 3 centimeters long and 10 to 15 radial spines that are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long. The 20 centimeters long (or longer) and 2 to 4 centimeters wide cephalium consists of reddish brown hairs that are up to 5 millimeters long.

The white flowers are 3 to 4.5 inches long and 1.7 to 2.8 inches in diameter. The greenish fruits are up to 6 centimeters long and 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Facheiroa ulei is common in the Brazilian state of Bahia at altitudes of 400 to 950 meters. The first description as Cephalocereus ulei was published in 1908 by Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke . Erich Werdermann placed them in the genus Facheiroa in 1933 . A synonym is Facheiroa publiflora Britton & Rose (1920).

About the threat of facheiroa ulei in were endangered Red List species of IUCN before 2002 are insufficient data. After the list was revised in 2013, the species will be classified as " Least Concern (LC) ", i. H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 288-289 .

Individual evidence

↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 18, Berlin 190, p. 85.
↑ Brazil and its columnar cacti . 1933, p. 113.
↑ Facheiroa ulei in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Machado, M. & Braun, P., 2010. Retrieved March 9, 2014.

Web links

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[1] Monthly for cactus science . Volume 18, Berlin 190, p. 85.

[2] Brazil and its columnar cacti . 1933, p. 113.

[3] Facheiroa ulei in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Machado, M. & Braun, P., 2010. Retrieved March 9, 2014.