Eriosyce chilensis
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Eriosyce chilensis is a species of plant in the genus Eriosyce from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet chilensis means 'from Chile'.
description
Eriosyce chilensis usually grows individually with spherical to elongated, occasionally columnar or creeping, yellowish green shoots and reaches lengths of up to 100 centimeters with diameters of 6 to 12 centimeters. The roots are fibrous. There are 14 to 16 ribs that are deeply notched and tuberous. The stiff, needle-like thorns are yellow to brownish and are difficult to distinguish between central and radial spines. The six to eight central spines are 1.5 to 2.5 inches long. The often bristle-like, 16 to 24 radial spines are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.
The funnel-shaped, yellow to fuchsia-red flowers appear from young areoles. An areole often has more than one flower. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with wool and glassy, white bristles. The elongated, bright red fruits are up to 3 centimeters long. They open with a basal pore.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Eriosyce chilensis is common in the border area of the Chilean regions Coquimbo and Valparaíso on the coast. It was first described as Echinocactus chilensis in 1898 by Karl Moritz Schumann . Fred Kattermann placed them in the genus Eriosyce in 1994 .
A distinction is made between the following varieties:
- Eriosyce chilensis var. Albidiflora (F.Ritter) Katt.
- Eriosyce chilensis var. Chilensis
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. listed as critically endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 257 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ General description of the cacti . 1898, pp. 423-424, (online) .
- ^ Succulent Plant Research . Volume 1, David Hunt, Richmond 1994, p. 119.
- ↑ Eriosyce chilensis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Guerrero, P., Saldivia, P. & Walter, HE, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
