Copiapoa laui

Copiapoa laui
	Copiapoa laui siting plant after flowering
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Copiapoa
Type :	Copiapoa laui
Scientific name
	Copiapoa laui
	Diers

Copiapoa laui in culture

Copiapoa laui is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German missionary and cactus researcher Alfred Bernhard Lau .

description

Copiapoa laui usually grows multi-headed, level with the ground or slightly sunken with a partially sunken apex. The individual shoots are flattened, spherical, gray to reddish brown, sometimes also greenish. They are 1 to 1.5 inches high and 1 to 3 inches in diameter. The clearly developed more or less than 15 ribs are spiral-like dissolved into small humps. The areoles are circular and covered with some wool. The thorns are black, needle-like and 2 to 4 millimeters long. A central spine is often completely absent. The 4 to 7 radial spines are completely pressed against the plant body.

The yellow flowers appear in the apex. They are 1.5 to 1.8 inches long and have reddish perianth segment tips . The fruits are small. Copiapoa laui is one of the smallest cacti ever.

Distribution and systematics

Copiapoa laui is common in Chile in the Región de Antofagasta and the Región de Atacama in the Pan de Azúcar National Park and on the Esmeralda Island .

It was first described in 1980 by Lothar Diers . A synonym is the variety Copiapoa hypogaea var. Laui (Diers) AEHoffmann (1989).

literature

Edward Frederick Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 141 .
Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America . tape 4 : Peru . Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1981, OCLC 475383426 , p. 1517 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 133.
↑ Cacti and other succulents . Vol. 31, No. 12, 1980, pp. 362-365.

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. 133.

[2] Cacti and other succulents . Vol. 31, No. 12, 1980, pp. 362-365.