Gymnocalycium quehlianum
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Gymnocalycium quehlianum is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German cactus lover and co-founder of the German Cactus Society Leopold Quehl (1849–1922).
description
Gymnocalycium quehlianum usually grows individually, but sometimes also in groups, with gray-green, reddish tinged, depressed spherical to flat-spherical shoots and reaches heights of up to 4 centimeters and more with diameters of 10 to 15 centimeters. The eleven to 14 low ribs are divided by transverse furrows into humps with low, chin-like protrusions. The five to seven weak, downward and sideways curved thorns are whitish and up to 1 centimeter long.
The white flowers have a reddish throat. They reach a length of up to 6 centimeters. The grayish brown fruits are slender club-shaped.
Distribution and systematics
Gymnocalycium quehlianum is distributed in the Argentine province of Córdoba at altitudes of 500 to 1500 meters.
It was first described as Echinocactus quehlianus in 1899 by Leopold Quehl . Carl Curt Hosseus placed the species in the genus Gymnocalycium in 1926 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 324 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 197.
- ^ H. Quehl: News . In: Monthly for cactus science . Volume 9, Number 3, 1899, pp. 43-44 (online) .
- ^ Revista del Centro Estudiantes de Farmacia . Volume 2, Number 6, 1926, p. 22.
