Ferocactus flavovirens

Ferocactus flavovirens
	Ferocactus flavovirens
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Ferocactus
Type :	Ferocactus flavovirens
Scientific name
	Ferocactus flavovirens
	( Scheidw. ) Britton & Rose

Ferocactus flavovirens is a species of the genus Ferocactus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet flavovirens means 'yellow-greenish'.

description

Ferocactus flavovirens grows with numerous shoots and forms cushions with heights of up to 1 meter and a diameter of more than 2 meters. The spherical to cylindrical, light or cloudy green individual shoots have a height of 30 to 40 centimeters with diameters of up to 40 centimeters. There are 13 sharp-edged ribs . The areoles on it are far apart. The resulting needle-like thorns are light brown to gray. The four to six radiating central spines are up to 8 inches long. The lowest of them is longest and directed downwards. The approximately 12 to 20 radial spines are radiating. The upper ones are occasionally lighter in color and bristle-like.

The funnel-shaped, yellow to yellowish red flowers appear from younger areoles at the tip of the shoot. They reach a length of up to 3 centimeters and have a diameter of 2.5 centimeters. The up to 2.8 centimeters long, ellipsoidal fruits are red and completely covered with long, brown, bristly-pointed scales that are ciliate.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Ferocactus flavovirens is common in the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca .

It was first described as Echinocactus flavovirens in 1841 by Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Ferocactus in 1922 .

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. 292 .

Individual evidence

↑ Prof. Scheidweiler: Description of some new cacti from the collection of Mr. van der Maelen . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 9, number 7, 1841, p. 50, (online) .
^ 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. 138 .
↑ Ferocactus flavovirens in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S., Hernández, C., Valverde, T. & Zavala-Hurtado, A., 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2013.

Web links

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[1] Prof. Scheidweiler: Description of some new cacti from the collection of Mr. van der Maelen . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 9, number 7, 1841, p. 50, (online) .

[2] 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. 138 .

[3] Ferocactus flavovirens in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S., Hernández, C., Valverde, T. & Zavala-Hurtado, A., 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2013.