Harrisia brookii

Harrisia brookii
	Harrisia brookii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Harrisia
Type :	Harrisia brookii
Scientific name
	Harrisia brookii
	Britton

Harrisia brookii is a species of plant in the genus Harrisia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet brookii honors the archivist Herbert A. Brooke from the Bahamas.

description

Harrisia brookii grows shrubby with richly branched, light green shoots 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter and reaches heights of up to 5 meters. There are ten distinct, deeply indented ribs . The nine to twelve brown to white thorns are up to 2.5 inches long.

The funnel-shaped flowers have a length of about 20 centimeters. Your flower tube and the pericarpel are covered with long, pointed scales. The yellowish, ellipsoidal to spherical fruits reach a diameter of up to 8 centimeters. They are covered with low humps and persistent scales.

Distribution and systematics

Harrisia brookii is common in the Bahamas .

The first description was in 1908 by Nathaniel Lord Britton . A nomenclature synonym is Cereus brookii (Britton) Vaupel (1913).

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. 32.
^ Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club . Volume 35, 1908, pp. 564-565 (online) .

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 32.

[2] Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club . Volume 35, 1908, pp. 564-565 (online) .