Copiapoa ahremephiana
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Copiapoa ahremephiana is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the English photographer and cactus collector Roger M. Ferryman .
description
Copiapoa ahremephiana forms closed groups with a diameter of up to 50 centimeters and elongated woody roots. The whitish gray shoots measure four to eight centimeters in diameter. The 15 to 18 ribs are slightly enlarged around the areoles. The areoles are up to an inch apart. They are gray woolly at first, then later naked and slightly sunken. The four to seven thorns are not divided into central and radial spines. They are orange-yellow when young, later brown-black and up to 2.3 centimeters long.
The wide-opening pale yellow flowers are two centimeters in diameter.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Copiapoa ahremephiana is widespread in Chile in the Región de Antofagasta between Quebrada Botija and north of Paposo .
It was first described in 2002 by Nigel Paul Taylor and Graham J. Charles .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. listed as critically endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 135 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 4.
- ^ Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives: Bulletin of the International Cactaceae Systematics Group . Volume 13, England 2002, p. 15.
- ↑ Copiapoa ahremephiana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Walter, HE, Guerrero, P. & Avilés, R., 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2014.