Borzicactus sepium is a species of Borzicactus found in Ecuador.
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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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| Borzicactus sepium (Kunth) Britton & Rose
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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 edit
Media related to Borzicactus sepium at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Borzicactus sepium at Wikispecies
