Selenicereus coniflorus
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Selenicereus coniflorus is a species of plant in the genus Selenicereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Selenicereus coniflorus usually grows climbing with light green shoots from which numerous aerial roots arise. The shoots are tinged with purple along the 5 to 6 ribs. The rib surfaces are sunken or flat, on the edge they are wavy to humped. The areoles are covered with bristles and light yellow, needle-like thorns . The thorns differ in a protruding central spine and 4 to 6 radial spines.
The flowers are orange to lemon yellow on the outside and white on the inside. They are 22 to 25 inches long. Your pericarpel and the tube of flowers are covered with linear scales, white hairs and thorns. The pink, spherical fruits have a diameter of 6 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Selenicereus coniflorus is common in southern Mexico along the Gulf coast. The first description as Cereus coniflorus was published in 1904 by Wilhelm Weingart (1856-1936). Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Selenicereus in 1909 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 588 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 14, 1904, p. 118.
- ^ Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 12, 1909, p. 430, (online) .
