Stephanocereus leucostele

Stephanocereus leucostele
	Stephanocereus leucostele
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cereeae
Genre :	Stephanocereus
Type :	Stephanocereus leucostele
Scientific name
	Stephanocereus leucostele
	( Gürke ) A. Berger

Stephanocereus leucostele is a species of plant in the genus Stephanocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Stephanocereus leucostele usually grows individually with columnar, rarely branched shoots and reaches heights of 2 to 5 meters. The bluish green shoots, which are divided into unevenly long sections, have a diameter of 4 to 8 centimeters. There are 13 to 18 ribs . The 1 to 2 stiff central spines are white to golden yellow and 3 to 4 inches long. The up to 20 radial spines are white and 5 to 15 millimeters long. The ring-shaped cephalium formed at the end of the vegetative growth is densely woolly and hairy.

The tubular to bell-shaped flowers are white and 6 to 7 centimeters long. Occasionally they also appear on older cephalalgia. The spherical or slightly elongated, initially green fruits later turn blue and reach a diameter of up to 5 centimeters.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Stephanocereus leucostele is widespread in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia . The first description as Cereus leucostele was published in 1908 by Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke . Alwin Berger placed them in the genus Stephanocereus in 1926 .

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. 606 .

Individual evidence

↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 18, 1908, p. 53.
↑ The lines of development of the cacti . 1926, pp. 59, 97.
↑ Stephanocereus leucostele in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Machado, M., Taylor, NP & Braun, P., 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2014.

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[1] Monthly for cactus science . Volume 18, 1908, p. 53.

[2] The lines of development of the cacti . 1926, pp. 59, 97.

[3] Stephanocereus leucostele in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Machado, M., Taylor, NP & Braun, P., 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2014.