Copiapoa cinerascens

Copiapoa cinerascens
	Copiapoa cinerascens
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Copiapoa
Type :	Copiapoa cinerascens
Scientific name
	Copiapoa cinerascens
	( Salm-Dyck ) Britton & Rose

Copiapoa cinerascens is a species of plant in the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet cinerascens comes from Latin and means 'becoming ashen gray, fading'.

description

Copiapoa cinerascens has large tuberous roots and usually forms groups. The depressed, spherical shoots are dirty gray-green. They have a diameter of up to nine centimeters and a sunken vertex covered with gray wool. The approximately 20 ribs are narrow and dissolved in cusps and indented between the areoles. The areoles are crowded, roughly circular and gray or black. The thorns are stiff, straight and black. They turn ash gray with age. There are two central spines 1.8 to 2.1 centimeters long and about eight radiating and interlocking radial spines 1 to 1.3 centimeters long.

The yellow, wide-open flowers are not very fragrant. They become 2.7 to 5.5 inches long. The fruits are reddish to greenish in color and 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Copiapoa cinerascens is widespread in Chile in the Región de Antofagasta from Barquito to Taltal.

It was first described in 1845 as Echinocactus cinerascens by Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1922 to the genus Copiapoa established by them . Another synonym is Copiapoa copiapensis (Pfeiff.) Meregalli (1992, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 34.1).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as 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. 136 .
Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America . tape 3 . Friedrich Ritter self-published, Spangenberg 1980, p. 1083 ff .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 48.
↑ General garden newspaper . Jg. 13, 1845, p. 387 (online) .
^ 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 ).
↑ Copiapoa cinerascens in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Guerrero, P., Faundez, L., Saldivia, P. & Walter, HE, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2014.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 48.

[2] General garden newspaper . Jg. 13, 1845, p. 387 (online) .

[3] 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 ).

[4] Copiapoa cinerascens in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Guerrero, P., Faundez, L., Saldivia, P. & Walter, HE, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2014.