Selenicereus donkelaarii

Selenicereus donkelaarii
	Selenicereus donkelaarii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Hylocereeae
Genre :	Selenicereus
Type :	Selenicereus donkelaarii
Scientific name
	Selenicereus donkelaarii
	( Salm-Dyck ) Britton & Rose

Selenicereus donkelaarii is a species of plant in the genus Selenicereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). Common names are "Choh Kan" and "Sak-Bak-El-Kan".

description

Selenicereus donkelaarii grows creeping or ascending with slender shoots up to 8 meters (and more) long and up to 1 centimeter in diameter. The 8 to 10 blunt ribs are only indistinctly pronounced. 10 to 15 spines arise from the closely spaced areoles . There are one to several, 1 to 2 millimeters long, central spines and hair-like, adjacent, 3 to 4 millimeters long, radial spines.

The long-tubular, white flowers are up to 18 centimeters long. The fruits are not described.

Distribution and systematics

Selenicereus donkelaarii is widespread in southeastern Mexico and Belize at low altitudes. The first description as Cereus donkelaarii was published in 1845 by Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Selenicereus in 1920 .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 588 .

Individual evidence

↑ Description of some new cacti which are cultivated in the Princely Salm-Dyck'schen garden . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 13, number 45, 1845, p. 355 (online) .
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 200 .

Web links

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[1] Description of some new cacti which are cultivated in the Princely Salm-Dyck'schen garden . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 13, number 45, 1845, p. 355 (online) .

[2] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 200 .