Cereus insularis
{{Short description|Species of cactus}}
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| image = Cereus insularis Hemsley.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Cereus insularis
| authority = Hemsl.
| synonyms = {{species list |Monvillea insularis|(Hemsl.) Britton & Rose
|Cereus ridleii|Andrade-Lima ex Backeb.}}
}}
Cereus insularis is a species of columnar cactus in the family Cactaceae.{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:130320-1 |title= Cereus insularis Hemsl. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=November 10, 2024}}{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/SXC3 |title= Cereus insularis Hemsl. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=November 10, 2024}} It is found in Brazil.{{cite web | title=Name - Cereus insularis Cárdenas | website=Tropicos | date=2019-08-04 | url=https://www.tropicos.org/Name/5103564 | access-date=2019-08-04}}
Description
Cereus insularis grows as a shrub with deep green shoots that are 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter and are often branched. There are six to eight straight ribs. The gray areoles on it are close together. The resulting 12 to 15 unequal, slender, needle-like spines are brownish yellow to greyish brown and up to 1.2 (rarely up to 3) centimeters long.{{cite book | last1=Anderson | first1=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | title=Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page=106| publisher=Ulmer }}
Distribution
Cereus insularis is found in coastal areas of the islands belonging to Brazil in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago.
phylogeny<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Nigel P. |last2=Zappi |first2=Daniela C. |last3=Romeiro-Brito |first3=Monique |last4=Telhe |first4=Milena C. |last5=Franco |first5=Fernando F. |last6=Moraes |first6=Evandro M. |date=2023 |title=A phylogeny of Cereus (Cactaceae) and the placement and description of two new species |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tax.13103 |journal=Taxon |language=en |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=1321–1333 |doi=10.1002/tax.13103 |bibcode=2023Taxon..72.1321T |issn=1996-8175|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
{{Phylogeny|cereus ingens|Cereus fernambucensis|Cereus insularis|}}
Taxonomy
The first description was published in 1884 by William Botting Hemsley.{{cite book | last1=Buchan | first1=Alexander | last2=Huxley | first2=Thomas Henry | last3=Murray | first3=John | last4=Nares | first4=George S. | last5=Nares | first5=George Strong | last6=Pelseneer | first6=Paul | last7=Thomson | first7=C. Wyville | last8=Thomson | first8=Frank Tourle | last9=Thomson | first9=Frank Tourle | title=Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares ... and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N | publisher=Neill | publication-place=Edinburgh | year=1880 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.6513 | page=| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18554 }} A nomenclatural synonym is Monvillea insularis (Hemsl.) Britton & Rose (1920).
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Cereus insularis|Cereus insularis}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Cereus insularis|Cereus insularis}}
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