Hylocereus purpusii
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Hylocereus purpusii is a species of plant in the genus Hylocereus fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The epithet of the species honors the German plant collector Carl Albert Purpus .
description
Hylocereus purpusii grows epiphytically climbing with blue-green, elongated shoots . The 3 to 4 ribs have a horny edge and are only slightly wavy. 3 to 6 short, dark-colored, conical spines arise from the small areoles .
The white, somewhat yellow flowers are up to 25 centimeters long and wide. Your flower tube is densely scaled. The fruits are pink in color.
Distribution and systematics
Hylocereus purpusii is common in western Mexico . The first description as Cereus purpusii was published in 1909 by Wilhelm Weingart . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Hylocereus in 1920 .
Hylocereus purpusii is possibly just a synonym for Hylocereus ocamponis .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 345 .
- Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape II . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1983, ISBN 3-437-30381-3 , p. 806 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 19, 1909, p. 150
- ^ 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. 184 .