Borzicactus sepium

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Borzicactus sepium
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Borzicactus
Species:
B. sepium
Binomial name
Borzicactus sepium
(Kunth) Britton & Rose
Synonyms
  • Cactus sepiumKunth 1823
  • Cereus sepium(Kunth) DC. 1828
  • Cleistocactus sepium(Kunth) F.A.C.Weber 1904

Borzicactus sepium is a species of Borzicactus found in Ecuador.

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Description

Borzicactus sepium grows as a shrub with mostly little or no branches from the base, lying to ascending, light to dark green shoots and reaches heights of 0.5 to 2 meters with diameters of 3 to 10 centimeters. There are 6 to 18 low, blunt, grooved ribs. The white or light brown areoles are far apart. The bristly to needle-like thorns are brown, yellowish or blackish and turn gray with age. The 1 to 3 strong central spines are up to 4 centimeters long, the 8 to 10 marginal spines are up to 1 centimeter long.

The slightly zygomorphic, bright red flowers are up to 7.5 centimeters long and have a diameter of 3 centimeters. Their flower bracts are spread out. The spherical, brownish green to yellowish green fruits reach a diameter of up to 5 centimeters. [2]

Subspecies

Accepted supbspecies: [3]

Distribution

Borzicactus sepium is widespread in northern and central Ecuador at altitudes of 1500 to 3500 meters.

Taxonomy

The first description as Cactus sepium was in 1823 by Karl Sigismund Kunth. [4] The specific epithet sepium comes from Latin and means 'fence'. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed the species in the genus Borzicactus in 1920. [5] Further nomenclature synonyms are Cereus sepium (Kunth) DC. (1828) and Cleistocactus sepium (Kunth) F.A.C.Weber (1904).

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References

  1. ↑ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  2. ↑ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 124–125. ISBN   3-8001-4573-1.
  3. ↑ "Borzicactus sepium (Kunth) Britton & Rose". Plants of the World Online. 2021-09-07. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  4. ↑ Bonpland, Aimé; Humboldt, Alexander von; Kunth, Karl Sigismund (1815). Nova genera et species plantarum :quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt /descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt ; ex schedis autographis Amati Bonplandi in ordinem digessit Carol. Sigismund. Kunth ... Antverpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.640.
  5. ↑ Britton, Nathaniel Lord; Eaton, Mary E.; Rose, J. N.; Wood, Helen Adelaide (1919). The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.46288.
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