Cereus flexuosus Engelmann

Publication in Coulter, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 3: 411 (1896).

Synonyme de

Stenocereus gummosus (Engelmann) A.C. Gibson & K.E. Horak

Commentaires

Publication:
"PRELIMINARY REVISION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ECHINOCACTUS, CEREUS, AND OPUNTIA.
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77. Cereus flexuosus Engelm. MSS.
Rather large, branched at base and straggling, the branches elongate (12 to 24 dm. and 7.5 to 10 cm. in diameter), flexuous (often deflexed), and diffusely branched: ribs 6 to 8, with deep intervals and remote areolae: spines stout and angular, black at length ashy, annulate; radials usually 8 to 10 and radiant, 1 to 2 cm. long, the lowest slenderer; centrals 1 to 4, much stouter and erect, 2.5 to 4.5 cm. long: flower unknown: fruit globose: 2.5 to 5 cm. in diameter, dark-red and spinose, acid.-Type, Gabb 5 in Herb. Mo. Bot. Gard.
Rocky or sandy ground, from Cape San Lucas to near Rosario, Lower California.
Specimens examined: LOWER CALIFORNIA (Gabb 5 of 1867).
The plant is large, dark-green, and very straggling, the elongated branches arising from the base and afterward sending off lateral branchlets, often forming impenetrable thickets. The local name is "pitahaya agre." "

Etymologie

Cereus: du latin cereus, cierge, en référence au port colonnaire de ces cactus.
flexuosus: du latin flexus, fléchi, en référence aux tiges courbes et retombantes.

Auteur

philippe (contacter)
Fiche créée le 16/12/2004.