Hylocereus minutiflorus
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Hylocereus minutiflorus is a species of plant in the genus Hylocereus fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae).
description
Hylocereus minutiflorus grows outstretched, climbing or shrubby, with three to four-edged dark green shoots with a diameter of 1.5 to 3.5 centimeters. Your rib edges are evenly lobed and not keratinized. The 3 to 6 thorns are hair-like, yellow to black and are 2 to 10 millimeters long.
The fragrant, cream-colored flowers appear on older shoots. They are short funnel-shaped, without a distinct flower tube and without a clearly separated pericarpel . The flowers are 3 to 3.5 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters in diameter. The spherical, magenta-colored fruits are up to 4.5 centimeters long.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Hylocereus minutiflorus is distributed in southern Mexico , Guatemala , southern Belize and Honduras at altitudes of up to 830 meters. The first description was published in 1913 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose .
Wilmattea minutiflora is a synonym .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. listed as endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 344 f .
- Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape II . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1983, ISBN 3-437-30381-3 , p. 802 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 16, 1913, p. 240, (online) .
- ↑ Hylocereus minutiflorus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Véliz, M., 2009. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
