Harrisia bonplandii

Harrisia bonplandii
	Harrisia bonplandii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Harrisia
Type :	Harrisia bonplandii
Scientific name
	Harrisia bonplandii
	( J.Parm. Ex Pfeiff. ) Britton & Rose

Harrisia bonplandii is a species of plant in the genus Harrisia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet bonplandii honors the French naturalist Aimé Bonpland .

description

Harrisia bonplandii grows straddling to leaning to climb. The shoots have a diameter of up to 5 centimeters and are up to 2.5 meters long. They are three to four-sided with flat sides. Their edges are sharp and wavy. The single strong central spine is up to 2.5 centimeters long. The four to five radial spines reach a length of 4 to 5 millimeters.

The flowers reach a length of 20 to 25 centimeters. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are in fact not woolly, but covered with large scales. The spherical, red fruits are heavily tuberous and edible. They have a diameter of 4 to 4.5 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Harrisia bonplandii is widespread in the Chaco vegetation in southwest Brazil , Paraguay , Bolivia and northeast Argentina .

It was first described as Cereus bonplandii in 1837 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in the genus Harrisia in 1920 . Nomenclatory synonyms are Eriocereus bonplandii (J.Parm. & Pfeiff.) Riccob. (1909) and Harrisia pomanensis subsp. bonplandii (J.Parm. & Pfeiff.) PJBraun & Esteves (1994, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.4).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 338 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 28.
↑ Braun, PJ (2017): The cacti native to Mato Grosso do Sul. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (3): 65-70.
↑ Braun, PJ (2017): An annotated list of species of the Cactaceae from Mato Grosso do Sul: Säulenkakteen. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (7): 191-197.
↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 108 (online) .
^ 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. 157-158 ( online ).

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 28.

[2] Braun, PJ (2017): The cacti native to Mato Grosso do Sul. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (3): 65-70.

[3] Braun, PJ (2017): An annotated list of species of the Cactaceae from Mato Grosso do Sul: Säulenkakteen. - cact. and. Sukk. 68 (7): 191-197.

[4] Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 108 (online) .

[5] 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. 157-158 ( online ).