Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
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( Hosseus ) A. Berger |
Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet bodenbenderianum honors the German geologist Wilhelm Bodenbender (1847–1941).
description
Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum grows with brownish to gray-green, flat, disc-shaped shoots that barely protrude above the soil surface and reaches heights of 2 to 3 centimeters with diameters of up to 8 centimeters. The eleven to 15 low ribs are rounded and clearly humped. The three to seven strong, backward curved, blackish-brown thorns turn gray with age. They are up to 10 millimeters long.
The whitish to light pink flowers are 3.5 to 6 inches long. Your flower tube is narrow. The blue-green fruits are egg-shaped. They are up to 2 inches long (or longer) and up to 1 centimeter in diameter.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum is distributed in the Argentine provinces of Catamarca , Córdoba , La Rioja , San Juan and Santiago del Estero at altitudes of 100 to 1100 meters.
It was first described as Echinocactus bodenbenderianus in 1928 by Carl Curt Hosseus . Alwin Berger placed the species in the genus Gymnocalycium a year later . The following subspecies are distinguished:
- Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum subsp. soil benderianum
- Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum subsp. intertextum (Backeb. ex H.Till) H.Till
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 312 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Metzing: Naked thistle and spider cactus The genus Gymnocalycium . Special edition of the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft eV, 2012, p. 94.
- ↑ cacti . 1929, pp. 221, 341.
- ↑ Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum in the Red List of Endangered Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Demaio, P., Perea, M. & Trevisson, M., 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2014.