Copiapoa gigantea

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

Copiapoa gigantea is a species of plant in the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet gigantea comes from Latin and means 'enormous, which relates to the size of the plant'.

description

Copiapoa gigantea forms larger groups with a height of up to 1.5 meters and a diameter of up to two meters. The spherical to cylindrical shoots branch from the base, as well as laterally. They are gray-green to gray and reach a diameter between 12 and 25 centimeters. The 20 to 37 ribs are notched. They flatten a little over time. The large areoles are orange in color. There is a central spine that can sometimes be missing. The up to nine radial spines are yellowish with a dark tip and up to three centimeters long.

Young plant in flower

The lemon-yellow flowers are wide open and 2.5 to 4 inches long, with a diameter of up to five inches. They are odorless.

Distribution and systematics

Copiapoa gigantea is widespread in Chile in the Región de Antofagasta near Paposo, close to the coast.

It was first described in 1936 by Curt Backeberg . Synonyms are Copiapoa cinerea var. Gigantea (Backeb.) NPTaylor (1987), Copiapoa cinerea subsp. gigantea (Backeb.) Slaba (1997), Copiapoa gigantea var. haseltoniana (Backeb.) F. Ritter ( 1980), Copiapoa cinerea var. haseltoniana (Backeb.) NPTaylor (1981), Copiapoa cinerea subsp. haseltoniana (Backeb.) NPTaylor (1997), Copiapoa cinerea var. eremophila (F.Ritter) AEHoffm. (1989), Copiapoa cinerea subsp. eremophila (F.Ritter) Doweld (2002) and Copiapoa cinerea var. tenebrosa (F.Ritter) 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. 139 .
Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America . tape 3 . Friedrich Ritter self-published, Spangenberg 1980, p. 1099 ff .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 93.
↑ Yearbook of the German Cactus Society in the German Society for Garden Culture . Vol. 1, 1936, p. 104.

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. 93.

[2] Yearbook of the German Cactus Society in the German Society for Garden Culture . Vol. 1, 1936, p. 104.