Quiabentia
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Quiabentia is a genus of plants from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the common name quiabento used in Brazil.
description
The tree-like or bushy, xerophytic species of the genus Quiabentia have lively, fleshy, round branches that produce flat, fleshy leaves . The leaves are broadly ovate to spatulate and up to 7 inches long. Their areoles are covered with glochids and numerous thorns .
The almost terminal or terminal appearing, striking flowers are red or pink-red and open during the day. The flower cup bears leaves, areoles, glochids and thorns. One flower tube is missing.
The fruits are elongated, fleshy, and usually smooth. The large, circular and flattened seeds have a seed coat .
Systematics and distribution
One species of the genus Quiabentia is common in Brazil , the other in Bolivia , Paraguay and Argentina .
The first description of the genus with the then only species Quiabentia zehntneri was made in 1923 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose in the appendix of the fourth volume of their work The Cactaceae . The type species of the genus is Pereskia zehntneri . The genus includes the two species:
- Quiabentia verticillata (Vaupel) Backeb.
- Quiabentia zehntneri (Britton & Rose) Britton & Rose
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 557 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward F. Anderson : The great cactus lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 557 .
Web links
- Photo of the flower of Quiabentia zehntneri