Harrisia bonplandii

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Harrisia bonplandii
Harrisia bonplandii (Cactaceae) Nationale Plantentuin Meise 10-01-2010 14-48-38.JPG
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Harrisia
Species:
H. bonplandii
Binomial name
Harrisia bonplandii
(Parm.) Britton & Rose
Synonyms
  • Cereus bonplandiiJ.Parm. 1837
  • Eriocereus bonplandii(J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) Riccob. 1909
  • Harrisia pomanensis subsp. bonplandii(J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) P.J.Braun & Esteves 1995
  • Acanthocereus acutangulus(Pfeiff.) A.Berger 1929
  • Cereus acutangulusPfeiff. 1837
  • Cereus balansaeK.Schum. 1890
  • Cereus bonplandii var. brevispinusC.A.Maass 1905
  • Cereus bonplandii var. pomanensisF.A.C.Weber 1897
  • Cereus guelichiiSpeg. 1905
  • Cereus pomanensis var. grosseiGraebener 1909
  • Echinopsis balansae(K.Schum.) Anceschi & Magli 2013
  • Eriocereus guelichii(Speg.) A.Berger 1929
  • Harrisia balansae(K.Schum.) N.P.Taylor & Zappi 1997
  • Harrisia guelichii(Speg.) Britton & Rose 1920

Harrisia bonplandii is a species of cactus. The cactus plants in the Gran Chaco (Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia) are generally called tuna and this specific variety reina de la noche (queen of the night). Fruits and roots are edible and well known to the native nations of the Gran Chaco.

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Names of this cactus in the different languages of the native Nations are: Ayoreo Nation: daturirai / datura; Enxet Nation: laapang; Nivaclé Nation: sôtôyuc. In Argentina it is also known as pasacana/ulua. The plant remains often unnoticed in the forest, but can not be overseen when it blossoms only in the night and where its Spanish name originates. [1]

The name bonplandii honors the French scientist Aimé Bonpland. [2]

Description

Harrisia bonplandii is stem scandent, clambering or sprawling and grows up leaning-climbing. The stems have diameters of up to 5 centimeters and are up to 2.5 meters long. They are three to four edged with flat faces. Their edges are sharp and wavy. The single strong central spine is up to 2.5 centimeters long. The four to five side spines reach a length of 4 to 5 millimeters The flowers reach a length of 20 to 25 centimeters Their pericarpel and the corolla tube are virtually without wool, but filled with large scurf’s. The spherical, redfruits are edible and strongly tuberculate. They have diameters of 4 to 4.5 centimetres.

Distribution

Harrisia bonplandii can be found in the southwest of Brazil, in Paraguay, in Bolivia and in the north of Argentina in the Chaco at elevations of 80–900 meters. [3]

Taxonomy

The first description as Cereus bonplandii was realized at 1837 from Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer. [4] Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose classified the type in 1920 as Genus Harrisia. [5] Nomenclature synonyms are Eriocereus bonplandii(J.Parm. & Pfeiff.) Riccob. (1909) and Harrisia pomanensis subsp. bonplandii(J.Parm. & Pfeiff.) P.J.Braun & Esteves (1994, not the correct Name ICBN-Artikel 11.4).

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References

  1. ↑ Friesen Ratzlaff, Verena(2004). Urunde´y - Schlorrekaktus - Pehen, Una guia para plantas leñosas del Chaco, Ein Feldführer für Chacogehölze, p. 29 ISBN   3-9807409-2-7
  2. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2010, ISBN   978-3-642-05597-3, S. 28.
  3. ↑ Franck, Alan R. (2016). "MONOGRAPH OF HARRISIA" (PDF). Phytoneuron. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  4. ↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum. Berlin 1837, S. 108 (online).
  5. ↑ N. L. Britton; J. N. Rose (1920), The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family (online) (in German), vol. Band II, Washington: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, pp. 157–158

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