Gymnocalycium stuckertii
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Gymnocalycium stuckertii is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Swiss pharmacist Theodore Stuckert (1852–1932).
description
Gymnocalycium stuckertii grows individually with cloudy green, spherical or occasionally flattened spherical shoots and reaches heights of 3.5 to 4 centimeters with diameters of 6 to 6.5 centimeters. The nine to eleven blunt ribs have sharp chin-like projections. The seven to nine somewhat flattened and slightly downy thorns are somewhat pink to brown and 1 to 2.5 inches long.
The short-tube, white flowers reach a length of up to 4 centimeters.
The species is not well known.
Distribution and systematics
Gymnocalycium stuckertii is widespread in the Argentine province of San Luis at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters.
It was first described as Echinocactus stuckertii in 1905 by Carlos Luis Spegazzini . 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. 328 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 230.
- ↑ Carlos Luis Spegazzini: Cactacearum Platensium Tentamen . In: Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires . 3rd episode, Volume 4, 1905, p. 502 (online) .
- ^ 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. 165-166 ( online ).