Quiabentia zehntneri

Quiabentia zehntneri
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Opuntioideae
Tribe :	Cylindropuntieae
Genre :	Quiabentia
Type :	Quiabentia zehntneri
Scientific name
	Quiabentia zehntneri
	( Britton & Rose ) Britton & Rose

Quiabentia zehntneri is a species of the genus Quiabentia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet zehntneri honors the Swiss biologist Leo Zehntner (1864–1961). Trivial names are “Quiabento”, “Flor de Cera” and “Espinho de São Antonio”.

description

Quiabentia zehntneri grows shrubby with slender green shoots and reaches heights of up to 3 meters. Their 2 to 4 centimeters long leaves are ovate to almost circular and pointed. The shoots are covered with numerous short white thorns .

The bright pink flowers are 3 to 4 centimeters long and 7 to 8 centimeters in diameter.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Quiabentia zehntneri is distributed in northeastern Brazil on rocks in the open Caatinga vegetation at altitudes of 450 to 750 meters. It was first described as Pereskia zehntneri in 1919 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose . In the appendix of the fourth volume of their work The Cactaceae , the two authors set up the new genus Quiabentia for the species in 1923 .

Quiabentia zehntneri is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 557 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 265.
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape I . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1919, p. 14 .
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape IV . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1923, p. 252 .
↑ Quiabentia zehntneri in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on 18 May, 2010.

Web links

Photo of the flower of Quiabentia zehntneri

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 265.

[2] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape I . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1919, p. 14 .

[3] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape IV . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1923, p. 252 .

[4] Quiabentia zehntneri in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on 18 May, 2010.