Haageocereus icosagonoides
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Haageocereus icosagonoides is a species of plant in the genus Haageocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet refers to the similarity with Cleistocactus icosagonus .
description
Haageocereus icosagonoides grows as a shrub with upright shoots branching from the base and reaching a diameter of up to 5 centimeters. There are about 20 ribs on which there are brownish areoles . Areoles in the flowering shoot area are covered with long wool. The dense and fine, up to 1 centimeter long thorns are yellowish brown. They are reddish at the tip of the shoot.
The white flowers reach a length of 8 to 9 centimeters. The fruits are covered with white wool.
Distribution and systematics
Haageocereus icosagonoides is common in Peru in the Lambayeque region in the valley of the Río Saña .
It was first described in 1957 by Werner Rauh and Curt Backeberg .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . With a foreword by Wilhelm Barthlott and an article by Roger Brown on cactus cultivation and care. Translated from English, supplemented and revised by Urs Eggli. Ulmer , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 334 (English: The cactus family . Portland 2004. Translated by Urs Eggli ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 115.
- ↑ Descriptiones Cactearum Novarum . 1957, p. 23.