Copiapoa bridgesii

Copiapoa bridgesii
	Copiapoa bridgesii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Copiapoa
Type :	Copiapoa bridgesii
Scientific name
	Copiapoa bridgesii
	( Whistle ) Backeb.

Copiapoa bridgesii
plate 14 from 1901 from Blooming Cacti

Copiapoa bridgesii is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the English-born plant collector Thomas Bridges .

description

Copiapoa bridgesii grows individually or in loose groups. The short cylindrical to cylindrical shoots are grass green and 20 to 40 centimeters high with a diameter of five to eight centimeters. The 8 to 12 ribs are straight, blunt and slightly humped. The small areoles are close together and partially flow into each other. The thorns are black to brown, graying with age. There are one to three straight, protruding central spines 1.5 to 5 centimeters in length and five to ten sub-radiant radial spines 1 to 2 centimeters in length.

The funnel-shaped yellow flowers are wide open. They are three to four inches long.

Distribution and systematics

Copiapoa bridgesii is common in Chile in the Región de Antofagasta between Barquito and Taltal.

It was first described in 1847 as Echinocactus bridgesii by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer . Curt Backeberg introduced the species to Copiapoa in 1959 . Another synonym is Copiapoa marginata var. Bridgesii (Pfeiff.) AEHoffm. (1989).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 136 .
NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape III . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1922, p. 88 ( online ).
Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America . tape 3 . Friedrich Ritter self-published, Spangenberg 1980, p. 1057 ff .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 32.
↑ Illustration and description of blooming cacti . Volume 2, 1847, plate 14 (online) .
^ Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . tape III . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1959, p. 1909 .

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 32.

[2] Illustration and description of blooming cacti . Volume 2, 1847, plate 14 (online) .

[3] Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . tape III . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1959, p. 1909 .