Selenicereus inermis
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Selenicereus inermis is a species of plant in the genus Selenicereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Selenicereus inermis grows creeping or stretched out lithophytically with shiny light green shoots 1 to 2.5 centimeters in diameter. Their 3 to 5 sharp-edged ribs are straight or slightly wavy. The areoles are located on humped elevations and are up to 6 inches apart. Thorns are missing.
The white flowers are up to 15 centimeters long. Their pericarpels and the flower tube are rarely covered with thorns or hairs. The fruits are not described.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Selenicereus inermis is distributed in the Mexican state of Chiapas , Costa Rica , Panama , Colombia , Venezuela and La Paz in Bolivia at low altitudes or up to 1800 meters. The first valid description as Cereus inermis was published in 1837 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Selenicereus in 1920 .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 589-590 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 116.
- ^ 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. 207 .
- ↑ Selenicereus inermis in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Hammel, B., 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2014.