Pilosocereus catingicola
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Pilosocereus catingicola is a species of plant in the genus Pilosocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet catingicola means 'inhabiting the caatinga'.
description
Pilosocereus catingicola grows tree-like or shrubby, branches above the base and reaches heights of 3 to 10 meters. The smooth shoots are olive green to glauk and have a diameter of 3.5 to 12 centimeters. There are 4 to 12 ribs, sometimes with transverse furrows. The non-translucent thorns are yellowish brown. The ascending to protruding 1 to 11 central spines are 0.2 to 4 centimeters long. The 8 to 12 radial spines are 3 to 13 millimeters long. The flowering part of the shoots is only weakly developed. It is limited to 1 to 3 ribs. White to gray hairs up to 3 centimeters in length arise from the areoles on them.
The wide-opening, white flowers are light green on the outside. They are 5.5 to 6.7 inches long and 4.7 to 7 inches in diameter. The depressed spherical fruits reach a diameter of 4.2 to 6 centimeters, tear open laterally and contain a magenta-colored pulp.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Pilosocereus catingicola is widespread in the Caatinga vegetation in northeastern Brazil .
The first description as Cereus catingicola was published in 1908 by Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke (1854-1911). Ronald Stewart Byles and Gordon Douglas Rowley placed them in the genus Pilosocereus in 1957 . A synonym is Pseudopilocereus catingicola (Gürke) Buxb.
There will be the two subspecies :
- Pilosocereus catingicola subsp. catingicola
- Pilosocereus catingicola subsp. salvadorensis
distinguished.
Pilosocereus catingicola subsp. salvadorensis was in the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN in 2002 as " Near Threatened (NT) , d". H. low risk led. After the list was revised in 2013, the species will be classified as " Least Concern (LC) ", i. H. listed as not endangered and the subspecies Pilosocereus catingicola subsp. salvadorensis excluded from the list.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 537 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 18, p. 54, Berlin 1908
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain . Volume 19, No. 3, p. 66, London 1957
- ↑ Pilosocereus catingicola in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: Zappi, D. & Taylor, NP, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
