Copiapoa fiedleriana

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

Copiapoa fiedleriana is a species of plant in the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German master carpenter and cactus lover Rudolf Fiedler from Berlin.

description

Copiapoa fiedleriana grows individually or with many heads with large fleshy roots. The spherical shoots are gray-green and 5 to 8 centimeters high and also large in diameter. The 15 to 20 ribs are straight, slightly compressed at the sides and humped at the same time. The areoles are circular to oval, gray and clearly separated from each other. The thorns are blackish or grayish brown in color. Central spines are largely absent. The four to eight stiff radial spines are straight to slightly curved and up to three inches long.

The pure yellow flowers are 2.5 to 3 inches long. The fruits are spherical.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Copiapoa fiedleriana is common in Chile in the Región de Atacama from Huasco to north of Carrizal Bajo .

It was first described in 1903 as Echinocactus fiedlerianus by Karl Moritz Schumann . Curt Backeberg presented the species to Copiapoa in 1936 . Further synonyms are Copiapoa pepiniana var. Fiedleriana (K.Schum.) Backeb. (1959), Copiapoa coquimbana var. Fiedleriana (K.Schum.) AE Hoffm. (1989), Copiapoa megarhiza var. Echinata (F. Ritter) AE Hoffm. (1989) and Copiapoa megarhiza subsp. echinata (F.Ritter) Doweld (2002).

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. 139 .
Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America . tape 3 . Friedrich Ritter self-published, Spangenberg 1980, p. 1078 ff .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 83.
^ Karl Schumann : Complete description of the cacti (Monographia cactacearum) addendum . J. Neumann, Neudamm 1903, p. 121 .
^ Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 280 .
↑ Copiapoa fiedleriana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Guerrero, P., Walter, HE & Saldivia, P., 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. 83.

[2] Karl Schumann : Complete description of the cacti (Monographia cactacearum) addendum . J. Neumann, Neudamm 1903, p. 121 .

[3] Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 280 .

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