Echinocereus fendleri
Echinocereus fendleri
Echinocereus fendleri is a flowering plant in the genus Echinocereus from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet honors fendleri a native of Germany botanist and plant collector August Fendler. Trivial names are " Fendler Hedgehog Cactus" and " Needle - Spined Fendler Hedgehog".
Description
Echinocereus fendleri grows individually, as a rule, but occasionally forming loose groups of up to ten drives. The green flaccid, ovate to short cylindrical, barely concealed by the spines shoots are 7.5 to 25 inches long and have diameters from 3.8 to 6.2 centimeter. There are eight to ten ribs are provided which are not tubercles. The single dark central spine, which may be absent is straight or slightly curved and is lighter in old age. It has a length between 3.8 and 1.2 centimeters. The five to nine brightly colored, spread, straight spines are 0.9 to 1.2 inches long.
The funnel-shaped flowers are magenta. They appear in the upper half of the shoots are 5 to 6.2 inches long and achieve just such diameter. The spherical, fleshy, at first green fruits turn red later.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Echinocereus fendleri is distributed in the United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas, as well as in the neighboring Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
The first description as Cereus fendleri by George Engelmann was published in 1849. Francisco Seitz (1831-1909) introduced the type 1870 in the genus Echinocereus. A synonym is nomenklatorisches Cereus cinerascens var fendleri ( Engelm. ) Bois (1928 ).
We distinguish the following sub- types:
- Echinocereus fendleri subsp. fendleri
- Echinocereus fendleri subsp. hempelii ( Fobe ) W.Blum
- Echinocereus fendleri subsp. rectispinus ( Peebles ) N.P.Taylor
A synonym for Echinocereus fendleri Urterart subsp. hempelii is Echinocereus hempelii Fobe ( 1897).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Least Concern ( LC) ," ie, than not led at risk.
Use
The fruits were used by the Hopi as a fruit.