Selenicereus validus
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Selenicereus validus is a climbing, epiphytic cactus of the genus Selenicereus .
description
The 10 to 70 cm long shoots form 9 to 12 ribs and have a diameter of 2 to 3 cm. The ribs are sharp to slightly wavy and 0.5 to 0.7 cm high. 17 to 23 white thorns are formed per areole , which can be up to 1.4 cm long. As with all species of the genus, the flower appears at night. It is white and can reach a length of up to 22 cm. The pericarpel and the tube are covered with greenish red scales and white hairs up to 0.7 cm long. Selenicereus validus is self-fertile . The purple-red fruits are spherical with a diameter of 4 to 5 cm and covered with white hairs.
Distribution area
The species is native to the Mexican states of Guerrero , Jalisco and Michoacán .
Systematics and risk
The species was discovered by Hernándo Sánchez-Mejorada . The first description by the Mexican botanists Salvador Arias Montes and Ulises Guzmán Cruz was in 1995 in Cact. Suc. Mexico released.
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
swell
- Jürgen Lautner: A wonderful new Selenicereus . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 53, No. 2, 2002, pp. 40-42.
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 593 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Selenicereus validus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Arreola, H. & Cházaro, M., 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
