Turbinicarpus lophophoroides
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Turbinicarpus lophophoroides is a species of plant in the genus Turbinicarpus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet lophophoroides means'similar to Lophophora '.
description
Turbinicarpus lophophoroides grows individually with blue-green, depressed spherical and somewhat flattened bodies and has a strong beet root. The bodies reach heights of growth of 3 to 3.5 centimeters and diameters of 4 to 4.7 centimeters. Their humps are barely pronounced. They are low, rounded and 2 to 4 millimeters high. The single, gray or whitish central spine has a darker tip. It is straight, protruding to slightly curved inwards and is 9 to 11 millimeters long. The 2 to 4 radial spines are whitish or gray with a darker tip, slightly spreading, more or less straight and 8 to 9 millimeters long.
The white to slightly pink flowers have a diameter of 3.2 to 3.5 centimeters. The light green fruits are occasionally covered with rudimentary scales.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Turbinicarpus lophophoroides is distributed in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí near Las Tablas .
It was first described as Thelocactus lophophoroides in 1934 by Erich Werdermann . It was placed in the genus Turbinicarpus by Franz Buxbaum and Curt Backeberg in 1937 . Synonyms are Strombocactus lophophoroides (Werderm.) FMKnuth , Toumeya lophophoroides (Werderm.) WTMarshall , Neolloydia lophophoroides (Werderm.) EFAnderson and Pediocactus lophophoroides (Werderm.) Halda .
Turbinicarpus lophophoroides is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species . In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN from 2002, she was as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. classified as endangered. In 2013 the species is known as " Near Threatened (NT) ". H. low risk led.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 631 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cactus science . 1934, p. 176
- ↑ Yearbook of the German Cactus Society in the German Society for Garden Culture . 1937, p. 27
- ↑ Turbinicarpus lophophoroides in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Smith, M., Fitz Maurice, WA, Fitz Maurice, B & Sotomayor, M., 2009. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
