Frailea phaeodisca

Frailea phaeodisca
	Frailea phaeodisca
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Frailea
Type :	Frailea phaeodisca
Scientific name
	Frailea phaeodisca
	( Speg. ) Speg.

Frailea phaeodisca is a species of plant in the genus Frailea from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Frailea phaeodisca grows individually with flattened spherical, dark gray-green bodies. The bodies reach a diameter of 2 to 7 centimeters. Most of the 30 ribs are divided into low humps. The areoles on it are brownish black. The 6 to 12 whitish, 1 to 4 millimeter long spines cannot be divided into central and radial spines.

The yellow flowers reach a diameter of up to 4 centimeters.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Frailea phaeodisca is distributed in Uruguay in the departments of Rivera , Tacuarembó , Durazno , Cerro Largo and Lavalleja and in Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Sul . The first description was published in 1923 by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", 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. 302 .

Individual evidence

^ Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina . Volume 96, 1923, p. 73.
↑ Frailea phaeodisca in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Larocca, J., Machado, M. & Duarte, W., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.

Web links

Entry on www.frailea.com

[1] Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina . Volume 96, 1923, p. 73.

[2] Frailea phaeodisca in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Larocca, J., Machado, M. & Duarte, W., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.