Weberocereus
Weberocereus rosei
Weberocereus is a genus of flowering plants of the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The botanical name of the genus honors the French botanist and cacti connoisseur Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber.
Description
The species of the genus Weberocereus grow climbing or pendulous, epiphytic or lithophytic. Her round in cross-section drives are angular or flattened. The 2-5 lobed or toothed edges have ribs on which there are small, barely spined areoles. The spines are short and bristly or sometimes non-existent.
The bell-shaped to short funnel-shaped, the sides of the shoots springing flowers are pink to yellowish white to mottled green and 3 to 10 inches long. They open for the night. The areoles on the Perikarpell and the corolla tube are covered with bristly or hairy spines.
The spherical to oblong, fleshy, often gehöckerten fruit is red or yellow and bristly or glabrous. They contain a white or purple flesh. The flowers rest is enduring. The medium size, dark brown to black, shiny seeds are hardly oval and almost smooth. They are up to 1.8 mm long and up to 1.2 mm wide.
Distribution and systematics
The distribution of the genus Weberocereus extends from southern Mexico southward through Central America to Ecuador. The largest number of species growing in Costa Rica.
The first description was in 1909 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. The type species of the genus Cereus tunilla. Belong to the genus of the following types:
- Weberocereus biolleyi
- Weberocereus bradei
- Weberocereus frohningiorum
- Weberocereus glaber Weberocereus var glaber glaber
- Weberocereus glaber var mirandae
Synonyms of the genus are Werckleocereus Britton & Rose (1909 ) and Eccremocactus Britton & Rose (1913).