Harrisia aboriginum

Harrisia aboriginum
	Harrisia aboriginum
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Harrisia
Type :	Harrisia aboriginum
Scientific name
	Harrisia aboriginum
	Small in Britton & Rose

Harrisia aboriginum is a species of the genus Harrisia inthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet aboriginum means' (Latin aborigines genitive pl) the native people of the Latins; Native people'. English common names are "Aboriginal Prickly Apple" and "Yellow Prickly Apple".

description

Harrisia aboriginum grows with upright to leaning, simple or branched shoots and reaches heights of up to 6 meters. There are nine to eleven rounded ribs . The seven to nine needle-like, initially pink thorns turn gray with age and are up to 1 centimeter long.

The slightly fragrant flowers are up to 15 centimeters long. Your flower tube is covered with stiff, brown hair . The yellow, spherical fruits reach a diameter of 6 to 7.5 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Harrisia aboriginum is found in the United States in the state of Florida from Tampa Bay to Lee County .

It was first described in 1920 by John Kunkel Small in Nathaniel Lord Britton's and Joseph Nelson Rose 's work The Cactaceae . Nomenclatural synonyms are Cereus aboriginum (Small) Little (1945) and Cereus gracilis var. Aboriginum (Small) LDBenson (1969).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 337 .

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 , p. 464.
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 154 ( online ).

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[1] Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 , p. 464.

[2] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 154 ( online ).