Leptocereus sylvestris

Leptocereus sylvestris
Leptocereus sylvestris
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Cactoideae Tribe : Pachycereeae Genre : Leptocereus Type : Leptocereus sylvestris
Scientific name
Leptocereus sylvestris
Britton & Rose

Leptocereus sylvestris is a species of plant in the genus Leptocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet sylvestris comes from Latin and means 'growing in the forest'.

description

Leptocereus sylvestris grows tree-shaped and reaches heights of up to 5 meters. The uppermost drive segments reach a diameter of up to 3 centimeters. There are five to seven strongly notched ribs . The persistent light brown thorns are up to 7 inches long.

The tubular white flowers are up to 7 inches long. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are conspicuously tuberous and covered with a few areoles that carry thorns. The spherical fruits are covered with a few areoles with short thorns.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Leptocereus sylvestris is common in eastern Cuba .

The first description was in 1920 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT)", d. H. listed as low risk.

proof

literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 357 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 81 ( online ).
2. ↑ Leptocereus sylvestris in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Listed by: Taylor, NP, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

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