Stephanocereus leucostele
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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.