Leptocereus prostratus
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Leptocereus prostratus is a species of plant in the genus Leptocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet prostratus comes from Latin and means 'stretched out, crawling'.
description
Leptocereus prostratus grows as a shrub with several prostrate to creeping branches and reaches heights of growth of less than 1 meter. The uppermost shoot segments reach a diameter of 1 to 2 centimeters. There are seven barely notched ribs , the areoles of which are conspicuously raised. The 15 to 20 persistent, needle-like, yellow thorns turn gray with age. They are 1 to 2 inches long.
The bright yellow flowers are less than 2 inches long. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are densely covered with yellow thorns. The densely yellow thorny fruits have a diameter of up to 1.5 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Leptocereus prostratus is common in western Cuba .
The first description was in 1920 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 356-357 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 79 ( online ).