Gymnocalycium netrelianum

Gymnocalycium netrelianum
	Gymnocalycium netrelianum
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Gymnocalycium
Type :	Gymnocalycium netrelianum
Scientific name
	Gymnocalycium netrelianum
	( Monv. Ex Labor. ) Britton & Rose

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

description

Gymnocalycium netrelianum grows individually or occasionally sprouts with green to slightly clawed , spherical to flattened spherical shoots with a sunk apex, which reach a diameter of 3 to 8 centimeters. The roughly 14 wide ribs are rounded. The five to eight bristle-like radial spines are brown to yellow and up to 1 centimeter long.

The light yellow flowers are up to 5 centimeters long. The spherical fruits are green and reach a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Gymnocalycium netrelianum is common in Uruguay .

It was first described as Echinocactus netrelianus in 1853 by J. Labouret . 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. 321 .

Individual evidence

↑ Monograph de la Famille des Cactées . 1853, p. 248.
^ 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. 154 .

Web links

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[1] Monograph de la Famille des Cactées . 1853, p. 248.

[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. 154 .