Weberbauerocereus weberbaueri
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Weberbauerocereus weberbaueri is a species of plant from the genus Weberbauerocereus in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Prussian biologist August Weberbauer .
description
Weberbauerocereus weberbaueri grows shrubby with numerous upright or ascending, gray-green shoots branched from the base with a diameter of 6 to 10 centimeters and reaches heights of up to 4 meters. There are about 15 to 22 slightly humped ribs . The areoles on it are close together, reach a diameter of up to 8 millimeters and are covered with long, grayish yellow wool. The six to eight strong central spines are brownish and up to 6 inches long. The approximately 20 thin, yellowish-brown radial spines are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.
The tubular to somewhat funnel-shaped, weakly zygomorphic flowers appear near the shoot tips, open at night and stay open until the next morning. They are 5.2 to 10.3 inches long. Your greenish-brown flower tube is slightly curved and covered with short brown hair . The bracts are white to reddish brown to pinkish red. The fruits are green, yellow, yellowish orange to orange-red and reach a diameter of up to 4 centimeters.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Weberbauerocereus weberbaueri is distributed in the Peruvian region of Arequipa at altitudes of 2000 to 3000 meters. It was first described as Cereus weberbaueri in 1913 by Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel . Curt Backeberg placed them in the genus Weberbauerocereus in 1957 .
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. 640-641 .
- Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America - results of my 20 years of field research . tape 4 Peru. Friedrich-Ritter-Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1981, p. 1354 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 255.
- ^ Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 50, Beiblatt 111, Leipzig 1913, pp. 22-23, (online) .
- ↑ Descriptiones Cactearum Novarum . 1957, p. 27.
- ↑ Weberbauerocereus weberbaueri in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Cáceres, F., 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
