Eriosyce aurata

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

Eriosyce aurata is a species of plant in the genus Eriosyce from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet aurata means '(Latin auratus) gold-plated, interwoven with gold, colored gold'. A Spanish common name is "Sandillón".

description

single flower on site plant

Eriosyce aurata grows individually with green, almost spherical to spherical or sometimes elongated shoots and reaches a diameter of 10 to 50 centimeters. Your parting is bare or lightly woolly. The roots are fibrous. There are between 24 and more than 42 ribs indented between the areoles . The needle-like, upwardly curved thorns are yellowish to horn-colored and later turn greyish. The four to eight strongly upwardly curved central spines are 2.5 to 4.5 centimeters long. The twelve to 16 radial spines are 2.5 to 4 inches long.

The funnel-shaped, yellow to reddish flowers appear from older areoles in a circle around the apex. They are 3 to 3.5 inches long and 2.2 inches in diameter. Its flower tube and pericarpel are completely covered with thick white wool and some scales. The elongated fruits are covered with wool and some scales. They tear open with a basal pore.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Eriosyce aurata is widespread in north and central north Chile from the Atacama region to Santiago and grows on the slopes of the Andes at altitudes of 300 to 2800 meters.

It was first described as Echinocactus auratus in 1846 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer . Curt Backeberg placed them in the genus Eriosyce in 1936 . There are two varieties :

Eriosyce aurata subsp. aurata
Eriosyce aurata subsp. spinibaris (F.Ritter) Katt.

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 256 .

Individual evidence

^ L. Pfeiffer: Illustration and description of blooming cacti . Volume 2, Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1846, plate 14.
↑ Cactus Journal; Devoted Exclusively to Cacti and Other Succulent Plants . Volume 5, London 1936, p. 9.
↑ Eriosyce aurata in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Guerrero, P., Faundez, L., Saldivia, P. & Walter, HE, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2014.

Web links

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[1] L. Pfeiffer: Illustration and description of blooming cacti . Volume 2, Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1846, plate 14.

[2] Cactus Journal; Devoted Exclusively to Cacti and Other Succulent Plants . Volume 5, London 1936, p. 9.

[3] Eriosyce aurata in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Guerrero, P., Faundez, L., Saldivia, P. & Walter, HE, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2014.