Neowerdermannia

Neowerdermannia
Neowerdermannia chilensis
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Cactoideae Tribe : Notocacteae Genre : Neowerdermannia
Scientific name
Neowerdermannia
Frič

Neowerdermannia is a genus of plants from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The botanical name of the genus honors the German plant collector Erich Werdermann . The addition "Neo" was necessary because the name Werdermannia was already given to a genus of the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae).

description

The individual, low-growing species of the genus Neowerdermannia are spherical to pressed spherical and have a strong taproot . The roughly 16 usually spiral-shaped ribs are hardly distinguishable because they are dissolved in warts. The areoles are often sunken and are located at the base of the top of the warts. Some of the thorns that spring from it are curved or hooked.

The funnel-shaped flowers are white to lilac - pink . They open in the day. Its flower cup and the short flower tube are covered with fleshy scales and bare areoles.

The round, horizontally with a lid or laterally tearing fruits contain broad, egg-shaped, roughened seeds .

Systematics and distribution

The genus Neowerdermannia is common in northern Argentina , southern Bolivia , Peru and northern Chile . The genus was first described in 1930 by Alberto Vojtěch Frič .

The genus includes the two species:

• Neowerdermannia chilensis Backeb.
  • Neowerdermannia chilensis subsp. chilensis
  • Neowerdermannia chilensis subsp. peruviana
• Neowerdermannia vorwerkii Frič

proof

literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 444 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaktusář . Volume 1, p. 85, Brno 1930.
2. ^ Edward F. Anderson : The great cactus lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 444 .

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