Borzicactus sepium
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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: | Borzicactus |
| Species: | B. sepium
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| Binomial name | |
| Borzicactus sepium (Kunth) Britton & Rose
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Borzicactus sepium is a species of Borzicactus found in Ecuador.
Description
[edit]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]
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Borzicactus sepium at the Huntington Desert Garden -
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small plants
Subspecies
[edit]Accepted supbspecies:[3]
- Borzicactus sepium subsp. morleyanus (Britton & Rose) Lodé
- Borzicactus sepium subsp. sepium
- Borzicactus sepium subsp. ventimigliae (Riccob.) Lodé
- Borzicactus sepium subsp. websterianus (Backeb.) Lodé
Distribution
[edit]Borzicactus sepium is widespread in northern and central Ecuador at altitudes of 1500 to 3500 meters.
Taxonomy
[edit]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).
References
[edit]- ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 124–125. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
- ^ "Borzicactus sepium (Kunth) Britton & Rose". Plants of the World Online. 2021-09-07. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
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Media related to Borzicactus sepium at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Borzicactus sepium at Wikispecies
