Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum

Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
	Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Gymnocalycium
Type :	Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
Scientific name
	Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
	( 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.

proof

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.

Web links

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[1] Detlef Metzing: Naked thistle and spider cactus The genus Gymnocalycium . Special edition of the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft eV, 2012, p. 94.

[2] cacti . 1929, pp. 221, 341.

[3] 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.