Gymnocalycium monvillei

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Gymnocalycium monvillei
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Gymnocalycium
Species:
G. monvillei
Binomial name
Gymnocalycium monvillei
(Lem.) Pfeiff. ex Britton & Rose 1922
Synonyms
  • Echinocactus monvilleiLem. 1838

Gymnocalycium monvillei is a species of Gymnocalycium from Argentina. [2]

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Description

Gymnocalycium monvillei grows individually, rarely sprouting, with dark green, spherical to flattened spherical shoots, which reach heights of 6 to 8 centimeters with diameters of up to 20 centimeters and form a massive taproot. As plants age, they sometimes become short, columnar. The 10 to 17 wide, blunt ribs are clearly divided into humps with conspicuous chin-like projections. The areoles are oval and, in addition to the thorns, have a dirty-whitish wool felt. The strong, thick, slightly curved thorns are yellowish and have a reddish or purple base. There are one to four central spines up to 6 centimeters long, which can sometimes be missing. The 7 to 13 marginal spines are 3 to 4 centimeters long.

The white, red-tinged, partially monoecious flowers reach a length of 3 to 8 centimeters and a diameter of 4 to 9 centimeters. The stamens are whitish with yellowish pollen, the style is whitish yellow. The spherical fruits are green to cloudy orange-red and reach a diameter of up to 2 centimeters. [3]

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Flowering G. monvillei

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Distribution

Gymnocalycium monvillei is distributed in central and northern Argentina, in the provinces of Córdoba and San Luis at altitudes of 500 to 2700 m.

Taxonomy

The first description as Echinocactus monvillii was made in 1838 by Charles Lemaire. [4] The specific epithet monvillei honors the plant collector Hippolyte Boissel de Monville. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed the species in the genus Gymnocalycium in 1922. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010-09-20. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  2. ↑ "Gymnocalycium monvillei in Tropicos".
  3. ↑ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 320. ISBN   3-8001-4573-1.
  4. ↑ Lemaire, C.A. (1838). Cactearum aliquot novarum ac insuetarum in horto Monvilliano cultarum accurata descriptio: fasc. 1 (in Latin). Apud F. G. Levrault. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  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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