Corryocactus apiciflorus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Genus: | Corryocactus |
| Species: | C. apiciflorus
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| Binomial name | |
| Corryocactus apiciflorus (Vaupel) Hutchison 1963
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Corryocactus apiciflorus or is a species of columnar cactus found in Peru.[1]
Description
[edit]Corryocactus apiciflorus grows as a shrub with spreading or ascending, densely thorny shoots up to 50 centimeters long and 2.5 centimeters in diameter. There are eight low ribs. The individual central spine is up to 1 centimeter long. The approximately 10 spread out marginal spines are also up to 1 centimeter long.
The red flowers are up to 4 centimeters long. They appear in groups near the tips of the shoots or sometimes on the sides of the shoots.[2]
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Fruits
Distribution
[edit]Corryocactus apiciflorus is distributed in the Peruvian regions of La Libertad, Ancash and Ayacucho.
Taxonomy
[edit]The first description as Cereus apiciflorus was made in 1913 by Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel.[3] The specific epithet apiciflorus is derived from the Latin words apex for 'tip' and -florus for '-flowered' and refers to the flowers that mainly appear at the tips of the shoots. Paul Clifford Hutchison placed the species in the genus Corryocactus in 1963. A nomenclature synonym is Erdisia apiciflora (Vaupel) Werderm. (1940).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Name - Corryocactus apiciflorus Cárdenas". Tropicos. 2019-08-04. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ Anderson, Edward F. (2011). Das große Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 144. ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2.
- ^ Engler, Adolf (1914). "Botanische Jahrbücher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie". Schweizerbart [etc.] ISSN 0006-8152. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ "Au Cactus Francophone :". Au Cactus Francophone (in French). 1956-11-12. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
External links
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Media related to Corryocactus apiciflorus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Corryocactus apiciflorus at Wikispecies
