Weberocereus rosei
Weberocereus rosei
Weberocereus rosei is a flowering plant in the genus Weberocereus from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet honors the American botanist Joseph Nelson Rose.
Description
Weberocereus rosei grows lithophytic with initially ascending to erect and later drooping, branching from the base instincts. The shoots are turning around at its base to a length of 1 to 5 centimeters, because then they are flattened. They are up to 90 inches and more long, 4-8 inches wide and have a protruding midrib. The engines edges are excluded, the lobes 3-6 mm high. The areoles located on the shoots are hardly woolly. There are up to seven needle-like, stiff, white to dark brown spines present, which are 1-4 mm long.
The tube- to funnel-shaped, greenish cream-colored to slightly pink, barely fragrant flowers appear singly near the shoot tips and are 5.5 to 7 inches long. Your gehöckertes Perikarpell is busy with shed and numerous thorns. The magenta fruits have a length of 4.5 centimeters. The flesh is white.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Weberocereus rosei is used in Ecuador in the provinces of Los Ríos, Chimborazo and Cañar at altitudes of 700 to 1000 meters.
The first description as Eccremocactus rosei occurred in 1962 by Myron William Kimnach (* 1922). Franz Buxbaum put the type in 1978 in the genus Weberocereus. A synonym is Cryptocereus rosei ( Kimnach ) Backeb. (1963).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN is the species as "Data Deficient ( DD)", ie out with no sufficient data.