Cleistocactus brookeae
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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: | Cleistocactus |
| Species: | C. brookeae
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| Binomial name | |
| Cleistocactus brookeae Cárdenas 1952
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Cleistocactus brookeae is a species of columnar cacti in the genus Cleistocactus.
Description[edit]
Cleistocactus brookeae grows as a shrub with sparsely branched, upright to columnar shoots up to 50 centimeters long and 3 to 4.5 centimeters in diameter. There are 22 to 25 ribs. The areoles on it are close together. 25 to 40 greyish-white or slightly yellowish spines, up to 1 centimeter long, emerge from them, which cannot be distinguished into central and radial spines.
The red to orange flowers are up to 5 centimeters long and have a diameter of 8 millimeters. The flowers are bent upwards in a right-angled S-shape above the pericarpell and flattened laterally. They are also somewhat sac-like bulging immediately above the pericarpell. The mouth is askew. The purple fruits reach a diameter of 8 to 10 millimeters.[2]
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Distribution[edit]
Cleistocactus brookeae is distributed in the Bolivian departments of Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz at altitudes of 800 to 1300 meters.
Taxonomy[edit]
The first description was in 1952 by Martín Cárdenas. The specific epithet brookeae honors the Bolivian plant collector Winifred M. Brooke.
References[edit]
- ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
- ^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). p. 117. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
External links[edit]
Media related to Cleistocactus brookeae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Cleistocactus brookeae at Wikispecies
