Myrtillocactus eichlamii
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Myrtillocactus eichlamii is a species of plant in the genus Myrtillocactus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Myrtillocactus eichlamii growing tree shape with a plurality of more or less upright, conspicuous blue green to deep green, glauken drives and forms an abnormal strain. There are 6 blunt ribs with gray areoles up to 2 centimeters apart . The single central spine is up to 7 centimeters long. The approximately 5 radial spines are protruding, swollen at their base and shorter than the central spine.
The creamy white flowers are 4 centimeters long and 3.5 to 5.5 centimeters in diameter. Your flower tube is very short. The spherical, purple to red fruits are edible and covered with a whitish wax.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Myrtillocactus eichlamii is common in Guatemala . The first description was published in 1920 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose . Myrtillocactus eichlamii is not well known.
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. listed as critically endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 437 .
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. 180-181 .
- ↑ Myrtillocactus eichlamii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Véliz, M., 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.