Gymnocalycium mostii

Gymnocalycium mostii
	Gymnocalycium mostii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Gymnocalycium
Type :	Gymnocalycium mostii
Scientific name
	Gymnocalycium mostii
	( Gürke ) Britton & Rose

Gymnocalycium mostii is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the plant collector Carlos Most, who collected in Argentina.

description

Gymnocalycium mostii grows individually with dark green, flattened, spherical shoots that reach heights of 6 to 7 centimeters with a diameter of up to 13 centimeters (rarely up to 20 centimeters). The eleven to 14 low ribs are deeply notched and clearly divided into humps. The strong, curved thorns are yellowish brown and have a darker tip. They turn gray with age. There are one to two central spines that are up to 2 centimeters (rarely up to 3 centimeters) long. The seven to eleven (rarely from three) radial spines are 0.6 to 2.2 inches long.

The pink to white flowers can have a darker throat. They reach a length of up to 8 centimeters and have the same diameter. The egg-shaped fruits are slate-colored to blue-green and reach a diameter of up to 1.5 centimeters and a length of up to 2 centimeters.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Gymnocalycium mostii is common in the Argentine province of Córdoba in the Sierras de Córdoba at altitudes of 500 to 1500 meters.

It was first described as Echinocactus mostii in 1906 by Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1918 in the genus Gymnocalycium . A synonym is among others Echinocactus kurtzianus Gürke (1907).

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. 320-321 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 158.
↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 16, 1906, p. 11.
↑ Addisonia . Volume 3, 1918, pp. 5-6 , plate 83
↑ Gymnocalycium mostii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Demaio, P. & Trevisson, M., 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Gymnocalycium mostii - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 158.

[2] Monthly for cactus science . Volume 16, 1906, p. 11.

[3] Addisonia . Volume 3, 1918, pp. 5-6 , plate 83

[4] Gymnocalycium mostii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Demaio, P. & Trevisson, M., 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2014.