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Jasminocereus thouarsii var. sclerocarpus (Schum.) Anderson & Walk.

candelabro

Pollen grain of Jasminocereus thouarsii var. sclerocarpus (K. Schum.) E.F. Anderson & Walk. (scanning electron micrograph). Photo: Patricia Jaramillo Díaz & M. Mar Trigo, CDF, 2011.
Pollen grain of Jasminocereus thouarsii var. sclerocarpus (K. Schum.) E.F. Anderson & Walk. (scanning electron micrograph). Photo: Patricia Jaramillo Díaz & M. Mar Trigo, CDF, 2011.

An impressive columnar cactus that can grow up to 5m tall. The large flowers have white and yellow petals. The plum-sized fruits grow on the trunks and turn bright red when ripe.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Caryophyllales

Family
Cactaceae

Genus
Jasminocereus

Species
thouarsii

Subspecies
var. sclerocarpus

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

Syn.: Jasminocereus sclerocarpus (K. Schum.) Backeb. fide Wiggins & Porter (1971)

Origin: Endemic

Status

Vulnerable

References

  • Adsersen, H. (s.a.) Personal observations Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished Manuscript.
  • Anderson, E.F. Walkington, D.L. (1970) New Combinations and Taxa in the Cactaceae of the Galápagos Islands. Madroño 20(5): 256.
  • Anderson, E.F. (1967.) An Account of My Cactus Collecting Trip to the Galapagos Islands. Cactus and Succulent J. Amer. 39:186-199.
  • Jaramillo, P. Trigo, M. M., Ramírez, E. &Mauchamp, A. (2010) Insect Pollinators of Jasminocereus thouarsii, an endemic cactus of the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos Research 67: 21-25.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
  • Lawesson, J.E. (s.a.) Pers. obs. field notes, collections 1985-7.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
  • Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.

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