Gymnocalycium anisitsii

Gymnocalycium anisitsii
	Gymnocalycium anisitsii; Plate 4 from 1900 from Blooming Cacti
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Gymnocalycium
Type :	Gymnocalycium anisitsii
Scientific name
	Gymnocalycium anisitsii
	( K.Schum. ) Britton & Rose

Gymnocalycium anisitsii is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Hungarian pharmacist Dániel J. Anisits (1856–1911), whosupplied Karl Moritz Schumann with cacti.

description

Gymnocalycium anisitsii grows singly or in groups with light green, often reddish or violet tinged, spherical to short columnar shoots and reaches heights of up to 10 centimeters and more with diameters of up to 8 centimeters. The eight to eleven ribs are pointed. Sometimes there is a central spine , but it is usually absent. The five to seven yellowish to brownish radial spines are slender, twisted and 1 to 6 inches long.

The funnel-shaped, white to pink flowers are up to 4 inches long. The red fruits are long cylindrical, up to 2.5 inches long and have a diameter of 1 centimeter.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Gymnocalycium anisitsii subsp. multiproliferum

Gymnocalycium anisitsii is widespread in southern Brazil as well as in Paraguay and Bolivia .

It was first described as Echinocactus anisitsii in 1900 by Karl Moritz Schumann . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1922 in the genus Gymnocalycium . The following subspecies are distinguished:

Gymnocalycium anisitsii subsp. anisitsii
Gymnocalycium anisitsii subsp. multiproliferum (PJBraun) PJBraun & Esteves

Synonyms for the subspecies Gymnocalycium anisitsii subsp. anisitsii include Echinocactus damsii K.Schum. (1903) and Gymnocalycium damsii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose (1922).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". 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. 311 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, p. 11. ISBN 3-540-00489-0
^ Karl Moritz Schumann: Blooming cacti . Volume 1, Issue 1, Plate 4, 1900.
^ 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. 159-161 .
↑ Braun, PJ (2017): The cacti native to Mato Grosso do Sul. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (3): 65-70.
↑ Braun, PJ (2017): An annotated list of species of the Cactaceae from Mato Grosso do Sul: Kugelkakteen. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (6): 149-156.
↑ Gymnocalycium anisitsii in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Listed by: Pin, A. & Oakley, L., 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2014.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, p. 11. ISBN 3-540-00489-0

[2] Karl Moritz Schumann: Blooming cacti . Volume 1, Issue 1, Plate 4, 1900.

[3] 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. 159-161 .

[4] Braun, PJ (2017): The cacti native to Mato Grosso do Sul. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (3): 65-70.

[5] Braun, PJ (2017): An annotated list of species of the Cactaceae from Mato Grosso do Sul: Kugelkakteen. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (6): 149-156.

[6] Gymnocalycium anisitsii in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Listed by: Pin, A. & Oakley, L., 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2014.