Selenicereus atropilosus
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Selenicereus atropilosus is a species of plant in the genus Selenicereus fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae).
description
Selenicereus atropilosus grows spread out to climbing with richly branched shoots . The stiff, green and smooth shoots are up to 3 meters (and more) long and 1.5 to 4 centimeters in diameter. Their 4 (rarely 3 to 6) serrated to notched ribs each have a conspicuous tissue hump below the areoles covered with whitish wool and thorns . The whitish to blackish thorns come in two different forms: 1 to 3 weak, twisted, 1 to 4 millimeters long and 1 to 3 thick, tapering, 1 to 6 millimeters long.
The funnel-shaped, yellowish or greenish cream-colored to cream-colored flowers appear near the shoot tips. They are up to 12 centimeters long and reach a diameter of 9 to 11 centimeters. The red to purple-colored, almost spherical to elongated fruits are barely tubercular, shiny and 5 to 6 centimeters long.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Selenicereus atropilosus is common in the Mexican states of Colima and Jalisco at altitudes of 870 to 1070 meters. The first description was published in 1978 by Myron William Kimnach (* 1922).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 587 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 50, No. 6, Los Angeles 1978, p. 268.
- ↑ Selenicereus atropilosus in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Terrazas, T., Cházaro, M. & Arreola, H., 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2014.