Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides

Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides
	Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Neobuxbaumia
Type :	Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides
Scientific name
	Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides
	( Haw. ) Buxb. ex Bravo

Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides is a species of the genus Neobuxbaumia in the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides grows with rarely branching green shoots 3 to 5 meters tall and 10 to 11 centimeters in diameter. The 8 to 10 conspicuous ribs are clearly wavy. The thorns are only upright in the flower zone and otherwise more or less horizontal. The single, strong central spine is dark brown and up to 3 centimeters long. The 7 to 9 straight, light gray radial spines have a darker tip and are 5 to 12 millimeters long.

The narrow, bell-shaped flowers usually appear in large numbers near the shoot tips. They are reddish pink, 5 to 8 centimeters long and reach a diameter of 7 centimeters. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with small bumps with nectar glands and small scales. The green fruits are up to 8 centimeters long.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides is common in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas , San Luis Potosí and Veracruz .

It was first described as Cereus euphorbioides in 1819 by Adrian Hardy Haworth . Curt Backeberg placed the species in the genus Carnegiea in 1950 and created the sub-genus Carnegiea subg for it . Rooksbya , which he raised to an independent genre ten years later. Its current classification in the genus Neobuxbaumia was proposed by Franz Buxbaum and published by Helia Bravo Hollis in 1978.

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 438 .

Individual evidence

↑ Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . London 1819, p. 75, online.
^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 22. Number 5, Los Angeles 1950, p. 154.
↑ The Cactaceae: Handbook of the cactus science . Volume 4, 1960, p. 2167.
↑ Las cactáceas de México . 2nd edition, 1978, pp. 658-659.
↑ Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. & Hernández, HM, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

Web links

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[1] Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . London 1819, p. 75, online.

[2] Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 22. Number 5, Los Angeles 1950, p. 154.

[3] The Cactaceae: Handbook of the cactus science . Volume 4, 1960, p. 2167.

[4] Las cactáceas de México . 2nd edition, 1978, pp. 658-659.

[5] Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. & Hernández, HM, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.