Copiapoa echinoides

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

Copiapoa echinoides is a species of plant in the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet echinoides comes from the Greek and means' similar to a hedgehog 'and refers to the prickly habit of the plant'.

description

Copiapoa echinoides grows singly or forming dense cushions. The green shoots are firm and spherical in shape. Your parting is a little flattened and woolly. They measure 7 to 18 centimeters in diameter. The 11 to 18 ribs are trimmed. The areoles are yellowish, graying with age. The thorns are colored maroon to black. They are straight to slightly curved upwards. There are up to three central spines 1 to 3 centimeters in length and six to ten radial spines.

The light yellow flowers are fragrant. They become 3.5 to 4 inches long. The round fruits are brownish to red and have few scales.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Copiapoa echinoides is widespread in Chile in the Región de Atacama near Totoral.

It was first described in 1845 as Echinocactus echinoides 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 . Further synonyms are Hildmannia cupreata (Poselg. Ex Schum.) Kreuzinger & Buining (1941, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.4), Copiapoa cupreata (Poselg. Ex Rümpl.) Backeb. (1959), Neoporteria tuberisculata var. Cupreata (Poselg.) Donald & GDRowley (1966) and Copiapoa echinoides var. Cuprea (F.Ritter) AEHoffm. (1989).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT)", d. H. listed as low risk.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 138 .
Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America . tape 3 . Friedrich Ritter self-published, Spangenberg 1980, p. 1105 ff .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 73.
↑ General garden newspaper . Jg. 13, 1845, p. 386 (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. 88-89 ( online ).
↑ Copiapoa echinoides in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Walter, HE, Guerrero, P., Saldivia, P. & Avilés, R., 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. 73.

[2] General garden newspaper . Jg. 13, 1845, p. 386 (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. 88-89 ( online ).

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