| Borzicactus icosagonus | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Genus: | Borzicactus |
| Species: | B. icosagonus |
| Binomial name | |
| Borzicactus icosagonus (Kunth) Britton & Rose | |
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Borzicactus icosagonus is a species of cacti found in Ecuador and Peru.
Description
Borzicactus icosagonus grows as a shrub with prostrate to creeping or ascending shoots and forms large, low piles. The light green shoots reach a length of 20 to 60 centimeters with diameters of 3 to 5 centimeters. There are 8 to 21 low, rounded ribs, which are divided into cusps by furrows. The areoles on it are close together. Areoles capable of flowering are covered with numerous, fine, long bristles. The 25 to 60 golden yellow thorns are needle-like or bristly and 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.
The almost straight, crooked-edged, pink to scarlet to orange flowers are 7 to 8 centimeters long. Their pericarpel is covered with small scales with a few hairs. The spherical, green to yellow fruits reach a diameter of 2 to 4 centimeters and are often covered with a few hairs.
Subspecies
Accepted subspecies:
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Borzicactus icosagonus subsp. humboldtii (Kunth) G.J.Charles | Peru. |
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Borzicactus icosagonus subsp. icosagonus | Ecuador to Peru |
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Borzicactus icosagonus subsp. roseiflorus (Buining) G.J.Charles | Ecuador |
Distribution
Borzicactus icosagonus is widespread in the Ecuadorian provinces of Azuay and Loja and in the Peruvian Piura region at altitudes of 1000 to 3000 meters.
Taxonomy
The first description as Cactus icosagonus was made in 1823 by Karl Sigismund Kunth. The specific epithet icosagonus is derived from the Greek words eikosi for 'twenty' and gonia for 'edge' and refers to the originally observed number of ribs of the species. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed the species in the genus Borzicactus in 1920. Further nomenclature synonyms are Cereus icosagonus (Kunth) DC. (1828), Cleistocactus icosagonus (Kunth) F.A.C.Weber (1904), Binghamia icosagona (Kunth) Backeb. (1936), Seticereus icosagonus (Kunth) Backeb. (1937) and Matucana icosagona (Kunth) Buxb. (1973).
References
- Ostalaza, C.; Loaiza, C. (2017) . "Cleistocactus icosagonus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T152875A121492621. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T152875A121492621.en.
- Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 12. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
- Korotkova, Nadja; Aquino, David; Arias, Salvador; Eggli, Urs; Franck, Alan; Gómez-Hinostrosa, Carlos; Guerrero, Pablo C.; Hernández, Héctor M.; Kohlbecker, Andreas; Köhler, Matias; Luther, Katja; Majure, Lucas C.; Müller, Andreas; Metzing, Detlev; Nyffeler, Reto; Sánchez, Daniel; Schlumpberger, Boris; Berendsohn, Walter G. (2021-08-31). "Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family". Willdenowia. 51 (2). doi:10.3372/wi.51.51208. ISSN 0511-9618.
- 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
Media related to Borzicactus icosagonus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Borzicactus icosagonus at Wikispecies
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| Borzicactus icosagonus | |