Copiapoa coquimbana
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Copiapoa coquimbana is a species of the Copiapoa genusin the cactus family(Cactaceae). Thespecific epithet coquimbana comes from Latin and means 'from the province of Coquimba in Chile'.
description
Copiapoa coquimbana often forms large pads. The spherical or short cylindrical shoots are bright green to blue-green. They have a diameter of 5 to 14 centimeters. The 10 to 20 ribs are indistinct, blunt or more or less humped. The areoles are woolly at first but then later naked. The thorns are black and then gray with age. Central spines are often absent. Up to three protruding central spines with a length of up to six centimeters have been observed in isolated cases. The four to nine radial spines are curved, radiating horizontally and up to an inch long.
The yellow flowers have a red central stripe. They are 2.5 to 5.5 inches long. The fruits are reddish brown.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Copiapoa coquimbana is common in Chile in the Región de Atacama and in the Región de Coquimbo from Huasco to just south of the Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park and inland in the valleys of Elqui and Choros.
It was first described in 1886 as Echinocactus coquimbanus by Karl Theodor Rümpler . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1922 to the genus Copiapoa established by them .
Further synonyms are Copiapoa coquimbana var. Pendulina (F.Ritter) AEHoffm. (1989) Copiapoa coquimbana subsp. pendulina (F.Ritter) Doweld (2002), Copiapoa coquimbana var. alticostata (F.Ritter) AEHoffm. (1989), copiapoa coquimbana var. Pseudocoquimbana (F.Ritter) AEHoffm. (1989) Copiapoa coquimbana subsp. pseudocoquimbana (F.Ritter) Doweld (2002), Copiapoa coquimbana var. vallenarensis (F.Ritter) AEHoffm. (1989) and Copiapoa coquimbana subsp. vallenarensis (F.Ritter) Doweld (2002).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 137 .
- Andrés Moreira-Muñoz: Plant Geography of Chile . Springer, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-90-481-8747-8 , pp. 208 .
- Friedrich Ritter : Cacti in South America. Results of my 20 years of field research . tape 3 : Chile . Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1980, OCLC 475383419 , p. 1074 ff .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 53.
- ↑ Theodor Rümpler : Carl Friedrich Förster's Handbuch der Cacteenkunde in its entirety: Or, the most successful, cultural information based on the latest experiences. Processed according to the current state of science and increased by the genera and newly introduced species established since 1846 . Wöller, 1886, p. 601 ( botanicus.org ).
- ^ 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. 87 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- ↑ Copiapoa coquimbana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Saldivia, P. & Walter, HE, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
