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Cleistocactus brookeae

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Cleistocactus brookeae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Cleistocactus
Species:
C. brookeae
Binomial name
Cleistocactus brookeae
Synonyms
  • Cleistocactus brookeae var. flavispinus F.Ritter 1980
  • Cleistocactus brookeae subsp. vulpis-cauda (F.Ritter & Cullman) Mottram 2002
  • Cleistocactus vulpis-cauda F.Ritter & Cullman 1962
  • Cleistocactus wendlandiorum Backeb. 1955

Cleistocactus brookeae is a species of columnar cacti in the genus Cleistocactus.

Description

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Cleistocactus brookeae grows as a shrub with sparsely branched, upright to columnar shoots up to 50 centimeters long and 3 to 4.5 centimeters in diameter. There are 22 to 25 ribs. The areoles on it are close together. 25 to 40 greyish-white or slightly yellowish spines, up to 1 centimeter long, emerge from them, which cannot be distinguished into central and radial spines.

The red to orange flowers are up to 5 centimeters long and have a diameter of 8 millimeters. The flowers are bent upwards in a right-angled S-shape above the pericarpell and flattened laterally. They are also somewhat sac-like bulging immediately above the pericarpell. The mouth is askew. The purple fruits reach a diameter of 8 to 10 millimeters.[2]

Distribution

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Cleistocactus brookeae is distributed in the Bolivian departments of Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz at altitudes of 800 to 1300 meters.

Taxonomy

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The first description was in 1952 by Martín Cárdenas. The specific epithet brookeae honors the Bolivian plant collector Winifred M. Brooke.

References

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  1. ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. ^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). p. 117. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
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