Pelecyphora aselliformis

Pelecyphora aselliformis
	Pelecyphora aselliformis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Pelecyphora
Type :	Pelecyphora aselliformis
Scientific name
	Pelecyphora aselliformis
	C. Ehrenb.

Vertex view

Pelecyphora aselliformis is a species of plant in the genus Pelecyphora from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet aselliformis means 'isle-shaped'. Trivial names are "Peoti", "Peotillo", "Peyote" and "Peyotillo".

description

Pelecyphora aselliformis grows with spherical or flattened spherical bodies that are 2 to 5 centimeters in diameter. Your hat-shaped warts are 2 to 4 millimeters high, 5 to 9 millimeters long and 1 to 2.5 millimeters wide. Its outer part is flattened, the outline elliptical. The 40 to 60 stiff, whitish thorns are conspicuously arranged in a comb shape and 0.7 to 4 millimeters long. The magenta colored flowers reach a diameter of 1.3 to 2.2 centimeters.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Pelecyphora aselliformis is common in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí . It inhabits low hills and flat plains at altitudes of over 1850 meters and grows on nutrient-rich, dark soils and limestone rocks. The first description was in 1843 by Carl August Ehrenberg .

Pelecyphora aselliformis is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species . In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is it as " Least Concern (LC) , d". H. classified as not endangered in nature.

When a new highway was built north of the city of San Luis Potosí , which led through a population of Pelecyphora aselliformis , 1226 specimens of the species were relocated to the El Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden near San Miguel de Allende .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 521 .

Individual evidence

↑ Botanical Newspaper . Volume 1, number 43, Berlin 1843, pp. 737-738.
↑ Pelecyphora aselliformis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2011. Posted by Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2002. Retrieved on October 6, 2011th
^ C. Glass, W. Fitz Maurice: Operation rescue . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 64, Number 6, 1992, pp. 295-298

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[1] Botanical Newspaper . Volume 1, number 43, Berlin 1843, pp. 737-738.

[2] Pelecyphora aselliformis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2011. Posted by Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2002. Retrieved on October 6, 2011th

[3] C. Glass, W. Fitz Maurice: Operation rescue . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 64, Number 6, 1992, pp. 295-298