Pachycereus fulviceps

Pachycereus fulviceps
	Pachycereus fulviceps
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Pachycereeae
Genre :	Pachycereus
Type :	Pachycereus fulviceps
Scientific name
	Pachycereus fulviceps
	( FACWeber ex K.Schum. ) DRHunt

Pachycereus fulviceps is a species of the genus Pachycereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet fulviceps means 'with a red-yellow shimmering head'.

description

Pachycereus fulviceps initially grows columnar, later it is richly branched like candelabras and reaches a height of up to 12 meters. The glauk green shoots are up to 8 meters long. There are eleven to 14 ribs . Of the mostly three central spines , one is 6 to 7 centimeters longer than the others. The other central spines are only 2 centimeters long. The eight to twelve thin, yellowish radial spines have a length of up to 10 millimeters. The terminal pseudocephalium is formed from dense, brownish wool and bristles.

The funnel-shaped, cream-colored flowers appear from the Pseudocephalium. They open at night, are 6 to 7 centimeters long and 6 centimeters in diameter. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with brick-shaped scales and long, dark yellow hair . The spherical fruits bear wool and hair.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Pachycereus fulviceps is common in the Mexican state of Puebla . It was first described as Pilocereus fulviceps in 1897 by Karl Moritz Schumann . David Richard Hunt placed them in the genus Pachycereus in 1991 .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 489 .

Individual evidence

↑ General description of the cacti . 1897, pp. 176-177, (online) .
↑ Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 89.
↑ Pachycereus fulviceps in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S., Valverde, T. & Zavala-Hurtado, A., 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

Web links

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[1] General description of the cacti . 1897, pp. 176-177, (online) .

[2] Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 89.

[3] Pachycereus fulviceps in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S., Valverde, T. & Zavala-Hurtado, A., 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2014.