Gymnocalycium berchtii
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Gymnocalycium berchtii , several plants in culture |
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Gymnocalycium berchtii is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Dutch chemist and cactus collector Ludwig CA Bercht (* 1945).
description
Gymnocalycium berchtii grows individually with cloudy blackish gray or blackish brown, flattened shoots with a slightly sunken apex and reaches heights of up to 2 centimeters with a diameter of 4 to 6 centimeters. A conical beet and a taproot are formed. The seven to nine ribs are flattened. The oval areoles have whitish to yellowish wool. The three to five straight, cloudy dark brown to black thorns occasionally have a lighter tip. They are 7 to 10 millimeters long.
The funnel-shaped, mother-of-pearl to pink flowers are 5.3 to 7.9 centimeters long and 4.3 to 6 centimeters in diameter. The gray-green fruits are elongated spherical. They are 2.1 to 4.2 inches long and 0.9 to 2 inches in diameter.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Gymnocalycium berchtii is distributed in the Argentine province of San Luis in the northern foothills of the Sierra de San Luis at altitudes around 700 meters.
It was first described in 1997 by Gert Josef Albert Neuhuber .
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
- ↑ Detlef Metzing: Naked thistle and spider cactus The genus Gymnocalycium . Special edition of the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft eV, 2012, p. 99.
- ^ Gymnocalycium . Volume 10, Number 3, 1997, pp. 219-220.
- ↑ Gymnocalycium berchtii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Trevisson, M., Demaio, P. & Perea, M., 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
