Ferocactus santa-maria
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Ferocactus santa-maria is a species of the genus Ferocactus in the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Ferocactus santa-maria grows individually with cylindrical shoots and reaches heights of up to 70 centimeters with a diameter of 25 centimeters. There are about 13 blunt, straight, and slightly tubercular ribs . The four gray, fluted and usually straight central spines are up to 4.5 inches long. The lowest of them is the longest. It is flattened and slightly curved towards its tip. The approximately 15 radial spines are lighter in color. The upper ones are bristle-like, some of the lower ones resemble the central spines.
The funnel-shaped, yellow flowers reach a length of up to 6 centimeters and have a diameter of 7 centimeters. The up to 5 centimeters long, yellow fruits are fleshy and 3.5 centimeters in diameter.
distribution
Ferocactus santa-maria is widespread on the island of Magdalena , part of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur .
Botanical history
It was first described in 1922 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose on the basis of a specimen that was collected on May 18, 1913 by JN Rose on the banks of Santa Maria Bay .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 297 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 131 ( online at archive.org ).
