Lemaireocereus queretaroensis (F.A.C. Weber) Safford
Publication Annual Report of the United States National Museum 1908, pl. 6, f. 2. 1909.
Basionyme Cereus queretaroensis F.A.C. Weber
"15. Lemaireocereus queretaroensis (Weber) Safford, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908:pl. 6, f. 2. 1909.
Cereus queretaroensis Weber in Mathsson, Monatssch. Kakteenk. 1: 27. 1891.
Pachycereus queretaroensis Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 422. 1909.
Plant 3 to 5 meters high, with a short woody trunk, much branched above; ribs 6 to 8, prominent, obtuse; areoles about 1 cm. apart, large, brown-woolly, very glandular; spines 6 to 10, at first red, becoming grayish in age, acicular, rather unequal, sometimes only 15 mm. long, at other times 5 cm. long; flowers 7 to 8 cm. long; ovary with many woolly areoles subtended by ovate scales 2 mm. long or less; fruit spiny, edible.
Type locality: Querétaro, Mexico.
Distribution: Central Mexico.
This species was formerly referred by us to the genus Pachycereus, but it has since been learned that the fruit is not dry, but juicy and edible, and therefore the plant is more properly a Lemaireocereus. Its peculiar glandular areoles are like those of L. thurberi, although otherwise the two species are quite different. This plant is said to be cultivated in Jalisco and Querétaro, Mexico, doubtless for its edible fruits, which are also called pitahaya. We have had the plant in cultivation in Washington since 1907, but it has made little or no growth.
Dr. Rose has collected the species at several localities in central Mexico, including the type locality (No.11133).
Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Acclim. France 52: 18. f. 2, as Cereus queretaroensis; Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908:pl. 6, f. 2.
Figure 142 shows the spine-bearing stem-areoles of an herbarium specimen collected by Dr. Rose near Querétaro, Mexico, in 1906."
queretaroensis: de la localité d'origine, Querétaro au Mexique.
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Basionyme Cereus queretaroensis F.A.C. Weber
Synonyme de
Stenocereus queretaroensis (F.A.C. Weber) F. BuxbaumCommentaires
Après avoir classé cette espèce dans les Pachycereus en 1909, Britton & Rose se rangent à la position de Safford dans The Cactaceae 2: 96-97, fig. 142 (1920):"15. Lemaireocereus queretaroensis (Weber) Safford, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908:pl. 6, f. 2. 1909.
Cereus queretaroensis Weber in Mathsson, Monatssch. Kakteenk. 1: 27. 1891.
Pachycereus queretaroensis Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 422. 1909.
Plant 3 to 5 meters high, with a short woody trunk, much branched above; ribs 6 to 8, prominent, obtuse; areoles about 1 cm. apart, large, brown-woolly, very glandular; spines 6 to 10, at first red, becoming grayish in age, acicular, rather unequal, sometimes only 15 mm. long, at other times 5 cm. long; flowers 7 to 8 cm. long; ovary with many woolly areoles subtended by ovate scales 2 mm. long or less; fruit spiny, edible.
Type locality: Querétaro, Mexico.
Distribution: Central Mexico.
This species was formerly referred by us to the genus Pachycereus, but it has since been learned that the fruit is not dry, but juicy and edible, and therefore the plant is more properly a Lemaireocereus. Its peculiar glandular areoles are like those of L. thurberi, although otherwise the two species are quite different. This plant is said to be cultivated in Jalisco and Querétaro, Mexico, doubtless for its edible fruits, which are also called pitahaya. We have had the plant in cultivation in Washington since 1907, but it has made little or no growth.
Dr. Rose has collected the species at several localities in central Mexico, including the type locality (No.11133).
Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Acclim. France 52: 18. f. 2, as Cereus queretaroensis; Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908:pl. 6, f. 2.
Figure 142 shows the spine-bearing stem-areoles of an herbarium specimen collected by Dr. Rose near Querétaro, Mexico, in 1906."
Étymologie
Lemaireocereus: en l'honneur du botaniste français Charles Lemaire (1800-1871), cierge de Lemaire.queretaroensis: de la localité d'origine, Querétaro au Mexique.
Numéros de collecte
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Fiches de botanistes :
Weber, Frederic Albert Constantin
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Lemaireocereus Britton & Rose
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