Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii
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Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii is a species of plant in the genus Sulcorebutia from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The species name honors the discoverer of the species, the Bolivian botanist Roberto Vásquez (* 1941).
description
Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii grows individually and only sprouts after injury with large spherical bodies. These reach a diameter of 6 to 10 centimeters and stature heights of up to 5 centimeters. They have a beet root that is up to 7 centimeters long. The narrow and elongated areoles are 0.5 to 1 millimeter wide and 3 to 6 millimeters long. The comb-shaped 14 to 24 radial spines are laterally aligned or bent upwards at a semi-incline (pectinate) and are 1.5 to 10 millimeters long. They are whitish to yellowish or brownish in color, often with a dark tip and somewhat thickened at the base. The surface of the thorns is very rough.
The greenish to reddish-brownish buds appear in the middle to the base of the plant body. The odorless to slightly musty smelling flowers are up to 23 to 30 millimeters long and have a diameter of 35 to 45 millimeters. They are often white to creamy yellow, sometimes pinkish purple on the outside and white on the inside and very rarely completely pinkish purple to salmon-colored.
The spherical and whitish to yellowish, later light brownish fruits have a diameter of 5.0 to 6.5 millimeters and contain 25 to 60 seeds.
Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii is assigned to the circle around Sulcorebutia crispata .
distribution
Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii is widespread in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca at altitudes between 1300 and 1400 meters on stony-rocky slopes.
proof
literature
- Lothar Diers, Wolfgang Krahn: Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii (Cactaceae) - a new species from Bolivia . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 56, No. 8, 2005, pp. 211-217.
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Gertel, Wolfgang Latin: Sulcorebutien - gems from Bolivia . Special edition of the German Cactus Society, Pforzheim 2010, p. 264 f.
