Gymnocalycium capillaense
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Gymnocalycium capillaense is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The epithet of the species refers to its place of discovery, the Argentine town of Capilla del Monte .
description
Gymnocalycium capillaense has a matt blue-green, broadly spherical plant body that is up to 8 centimeters in height and diameter and on which numerous children develop. It has up to 13, more or less flat ribs, which have low chin-like projections between the recessed areoles . The approximately 5 radial spines are yellowish to white and up to 1.2 centimeters long.
The delicate pink-white flowers are up to 7 centimeters long and up to 6 centimeters in diameter. The club-shaped fruits are bluish frosted.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Gymnocalycium capillaense is widespread in the Argentine province of Córdoba and grows at altitudes of 500 to 1500 meters.
The first description as Echinocactus capillensis was published in 1923 by Carl Schick . Carl Curt Hosseus placed them in the genus Gymnocalycium in 1926 . Synonyms are Gymnocalycium sigelianum and Gymnocalycium sutterianum .
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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Individual evidence
- ^ German garden newspaper. Weekly for gardeners and gardeners . Volume 38, Number 26, 1923, p. 201.
- ^ Revista del Centro Estudiantes de Farmacia . Volume 2, Number 6, Cordoba 1926
- ↑ Gymnocalycium capillaense in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Demaio, P. & Trevisson, M., 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 313 .
- Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape III . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1983, ISBN 3-437-30382-1 , p. 1716 f .
