Quiabentia zehntneri

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Quiabentia zehntneri

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Quiabentia
Species:
Q. zehntneri
Binomial name
Quiabentia zehntneri
(Britton & Rose) Britton & Rose

Quiabentia zehntneri is a species of

habitat loss
. Common names are “Quiabento”, “Flor de Cera” and “Espinho de São Antonio”.

Description

Quiabentia zehntneri grows shrubby with slender green shoots and reaches heights of up to 3 meters. Its 2 to 4 centimeter long leaves are ovate to almost circular and pointed. The shoots are covered with numerous short white thorns.

The bright pink-red flowers are 3 to 4 centimeters long and reach 7 to 8 centimeters in diameter.[2]

Distribution

Quiabentia zehntneri is distributed in northeastern Brazil on rocks in the open Caatinga vegetation at altitudes of 450 to 750 meters.

Taxonomy

The first description as Pereskia zehntneri was made in 1919 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose.[3] The specific epithet Zehntneri honors the Swiss biologist Leo Zehntner. In the appendix to the fourth volume of their work The Cactaceae, the two authors created the new genus Quiabentia for the species in 1923. Another nomenclature synonym is Grusonia Zehntneri (Britton & Rose) G.D.Rowley (2006).


References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T46512A121559737.en
    . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1
    .
  3. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.46288
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External links
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