Leptocereus paniculatus

Leptocereus paniculatus
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Leptocereus
Type :	Leptocereus paniculatus
Scientific name
	Leptocereus paniculatus
	( Lam. ) DRHunt

Leptocereus paniculatus is a species of plant in the genus Leptocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet paniculatus comes from Latin and means 'panicle, bearing panicles'.

description

Leptocereus paniculatus grows tree-like with a richly branched crown and reaches heights of 6 to 10 meters and more. A woody trunk is formed that can reach a diameter of up to 30 centimeters. The shoots that appear from the tip parts of older shoots reach a diameter of 4 to 6 centimeters. There are usually four, sometimes six, thin, notched ribs up to 2.5 centimeters high or the shoots are winged. The twelve to 20 persistent, needle-like thorns are brownish to gray and 2 to 5 centimeters long.

The tubular straight and greenish white flowers appear terminally from densely felty, cephalium-like formations and open at night. They are up to 2 inches long. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with small scales, some wool and few or no bristles. The elongated green fruits are almost bare. They are 6 to 7 inches long and 4 to 5.5 inches in diameter.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Leptocereus paniculatus is common in Haiti and in the southwest of the Dominican Republic .

It was first described as Cactus paniculatus in 1783 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck . David Richard Hunt placed the species in 1991 in the genus Leptocereus . Nomenclatory synonyms are Cereus paniculatus (Lam.) DC. (1828) and Neoabbottia paniculata (Lam.) Britton & Rose (1921).

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. 356 .

Individual evidence

^ Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique . Volume 1, Part 2, Paris 1783, p. 540 (online) .
↑ David R. Hunt, Nigel P. Taylor (Eds.): Notes on miscellaneous genera of Cactaceae . In: Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 89.
↑ Leptocereus paniculatus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Gann, GD, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

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[1] Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique . Volume 1, Part 2, Paris 1783, p. 540 (online) .

[2] David R. Hunt, Nigel P. Taylor (Eds.): Notes on miscellaneous genera of Cactaceae . In: Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 89.

[3] Leptocereus paniculatus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Gann, GD, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2014.