Harrisia pomanensis
Harrisia pomanensis fruit
Harrisia pomanensis is a flowering plant in the genus Harrisia from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet pomanensis means to arise in the area of Poman ( Catamasia ) Argentina '.
Description
Harrisia pomanensis grows sometimes shrubby. The more or less upright, sometimes bent or prostrate, blue-green or gray-green, glauken shoots are almost round in cross section and have diameters of 2-4 centimeters. There are four to seven blunt, rounded, not gehöckerte ribs available. The needle-like, initially reddish to nearly white thorns are later gray with a black tip. The single central spine is 1 to 2 inches long. The six to eight spines reach a length of up to 1 centimeter.
The flowers reach a length of up to 15 centimeters. The spherical, slightly gehöckerten red fruits carry a few scales.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Harrisia pomanensis is widespread in southern Paraguay, Bolivia and northern Argentina.
The first description as Cereus pomanensis in 1897 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber Karl Moritz Schumann's Complete description of cacti. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose set the style in 1920 in the genus Harrisia. A synonym is nomenklatorisches Eriocereus pomanensis ( FACWeber ) A.Berger ( 1929).
We distinguish the following sub- types:
- Harrisia pomanensis subsp. pomanensis
- Harrisia pomanensis subsp. regelii ( Weing. ) R.Kiesling
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Least Concern ( LC) ," ie, than not led at risk.