Gymnocalycium megalothelos

Gymnocalycium megalothelos
Gymnocalycium megalothelos
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Cactoideae Tribe : Trichocereeae Genre : Gymnocalycium Type : Gymnocalycium megalothelos
Scientific name
Gymnocalycium megalothelos
( Sencke ex K.Schum. ) Britton & Rose

Gymnocalycium megalothelos is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Gymnocalycium megalothelos grows individually with cloudy green to brownish green, flattened spherical shoots that reach the same height with diameters of up to 10 centimeters. The ten to twelve sharp-edged ribs are clearly humped. The single protruding central spine is slightly curved. The seven to eight needle-like, spread out radial spines are brown to gray and 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.

The somewhat pinkish-white flowers reach a length of 3 to 4 centimeters. The egg-shaped fruits are blue-green, up to 2 centimeters long and have a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Gymnocalycium megalothelos is probably common in Paraguay .

It was first described as Echinocactus megalothelos in 1898 by Karl Moritz Schumann . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1922 in the genus Gymnocalycium .

proof

literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 319 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General description of the cacti . 1898, p. 415, (online) .
2. ^ 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. 162 .

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