Weberocereus rosei

Weberocereus rosei
	Weberocereus rosei
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Hylocereeae
Genre :	Weberocereus
Type :	Weberocereus rosei
Scientific name
	Weberocereus rosei
	( Kimnach ) Buxb.

Weberocereus rosei is a species of plant in the genus Weberocereus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the American botanist Joseph Nelson Rose .

description

Weberocereus rosei growing lithophytic with at first ascending to upright, and later hanging, branching from the base instincts . The shoots are round at their base over a length of 1 to 5 centimeters, then they are flattened. They are up to 90 centimeters and more long, 4 to 8 centimeters wide and have a protruding central rib . The shoot margins are excluded, the lobes 3 to 6 millimeters high. The areoles on the shoots are hardly covered with wool. There are up to seven needle-like, stiff, white to dark brown thorns that are 1 to 4 millimeters long.

The tubular to funnel-shaped, greenish cream-colored to slightly pink, hardly scented flowers appear individually near the shoot tips and are 5.5 to 7 centimeters long. Your humped pericarpell is covered with scales and numerous thorns. The magenta-colored fruits have a length of 4.5 centimeters. Their pulp is white.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Weberocereus rosei is distributed in Ecuador in the provinces of Los Ríos , Chimborazo and Cañar at altitudes of 700 to 1000 meters.

The first description as Eccremocactus rosei was in 1962 by Myron William Kimnach (* 1922). Franz Buxbaum placed the species in the genus Weberocereus in 1978 . A synonym is Cryptocereus rosei (Kimnach) Backeb. (1963).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is called " Data Deficient (DD) ", i. H. with insufficient data.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 642 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 205.
^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 34, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1962, p. 80.
^ Succulenta . Volume 57, number 6, 1978, p. 125.
↑ Weberocereus rosei in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Loaiza, C., 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Weberocereus rosei - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 205.

[2] Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 34, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1962, p. 80.

[3] Succulenta . Volume 57, number 6, 1978, p. 125.

[4] Weberocereus rosei in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Loaiza, C., 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2014.