Corryocactus brachypetalus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose 1920
Publication The Cactaceae; 2: 67, fig. 102-103 (1920).
Basionyme Cereus brachypetalus Vaupel 1913
Publication:
"2. Corryocactus brachypetalus (Vaupel).
Cereus brachypetalus Vaupel, Bot. Jahrb. Engler 50: Beibl. III: 16. 1913.
Plants 2 to 4 meters high, usually with many (sometimes 100 or more) strict branches from the base, forming a top 3 to 4 meters in diameter; ribs usually 7 or 8, somewhat prominent; areoles usually 2 cm. apart, large, 1 cm. in diameter or less, with short wool and spines; spines at first black with brown bases, about 20 at an areole, very unequal, most of them less than 1 cm. long, the longest ones 10 to 16 cm. long; flowers broadly funnelform, 4 to 6 cm. broad; throat 2 to 3 cm. broad at top; inner perianth-segments deep orange, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the outer ones apiculate, the inner ones obtuse or truncate; filaments very short, 5 to 8 mm. long, yellow; style, including the slender stigma-lobes, 2 cm. long; areoles of the ovary and flower small, filled with black and white wool and nascent spines; fruit globular, 6 to 7 cm. in diameter, greenish yellow, covered with clusters of deciduous spines, juicy, said to be edible; seeds dull in color, 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Rocky sandy bottoms near Mollendo, southern Peru.
Distribution: Foothills of southern Peru, altitude 600 meters.
This plant is very abundant in the foothills of southern Peru. In many places it is the only conspicuous plant in this arid region, which in the dry season is otherwise almost devoid of plant life. In the shelter of these plants thousands of lizards live and doubtless, feed upon the flowers. Dr. Rose collected the species in 1914 (No. 18810) at Posco, Peru, not far from the type locality.
Figure 102 represents a flower and figure 103 a fruit, collected by Dr. Rose at Posco, Peru, in 1914; figure 100 is from a photograph taken near Posco, Peru, by T. A. Corry in 1918."
brachypetalus: du grec brakhus, court, et petalon, feuille: à pétales courts.
Fiche créée le 09/12/2006.
Basionyme Cereus brachypetalus Vaupel 1913
Synonyme de
Corryocactus brevistylus (K. Schumann ex Vaupel) Britton & Rose 1920Commentaires
Probablement une forme de basse altitude de Corryocactus brevistylus selon The Cactus Lexicon (2006(1):57).Publication:
"2. Corryocactus brachypetalus (Vaupel).
Cereus brachypetalus Vaupel, Bot. Jahrb. Engler 50: Beibl. III: 16. 1913.
Plants 2 to 4 meters high, usually with many (sometimes 100 or more) strict branches from the base, forming a top 3 to 4 meters in diameter; ribs usually 7 or 8, somewhat prominent; areoles usually 2 cm. apart, large, 1 cm. in diameter or less, with short wool and spines; spines at first black with brown bases, about 20 at an areole, very unequal, most of them less than 1 cm. long, the longest ones 10 to 16 cm. long; flowers broadly funnelform, 4 to 6 cm. broad; throat 2 to 3 cm. broad at top; inner perianth-segments deep orange, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the outer ones apiculate, the inner ones obtuse or truncate; filaments very short, 5 to 8 mm. long, yellow; style, including the slender stigma-lobes, 2 cm. long; areoles of the ovary and flower small, filled with black and white wool and nascent spines; fruit globular, 6 to 7 cm. in diameter, greenish yellow, covered with clusters of deciduous spines, juicy, said to be edible; seeds dull in color, 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Rocky sandy bottoms near Mollendo, southern Peru.
Distribution: Foothills of southern Peru, altitude 600 meters.
This plant is very abundant in the foothills of southern Peru. In many places it is the only conspicuous plant in this arid region, which in the dry season is otherwise almost devoid of plant life. In the shelter of these plants thousands of lizards live and doubtless, feed upon the flowers. Dr. Rose collected the species in 1914 (No. 18810) at Posco, Peru, not far from the type locality.
Figure 102 represents a flower and figure 103 a fruit, collected by Dr. Rose at Posco, Peru, in 1914; figure 100 is from a photograph taken near Posco, Peru, by T. A. Corry in 1918."
Etymologie
Corryocactus: en l'honneur de l'ingénieur T.A. Corry, ingénieur en chef des chemins de fer du sud de la Peruvian Corporation.brachypetalus: du grec brakhus, court, et petalon, feuille: à pétales courts.
Auteur
philippe (contacter)Fiche créée le 09/12/2006.
Fiches de botanistes :
Britton, Nathaniel Lord
Fiche du genre :
Corryocactus Britton & Rose 1920
Synonymes :
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