Echinopsis × cabrerae
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Echinopsis × cabrerae is a natural hybrid of the species Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). Her parents are Echinopsis strigosa and Echinopsis terscheckii . The epithet cabrerae honors the Argentine botanist Ángel Lulio Cabrera (1908–1999).
description
Echinopsis × cabrerae grows shrubby , branching from the base with ascending shoots, reaches heights of growth of up to 2 meters and forms groups with a diameter of up to 3 meters. The cylindrical, more or less upright, bright green, occasionally opaque shoots have a diameter of 9 to 11 centimeters. There are 17 (rarely 15 to 18) notched ribs . The richly woolly areoles on them are whitish yellow and are up to 1.2 centimeters apart. From them arise about 10 irregularly arranged, radiating, straight thorns . When young they are brownish, later they become yellowish. The longest thorns are up to 6 inches long. The lateral ones are the shortest and have a length of up to 0.5 centimeters.
The narrow, bell-shaped, white flowers appear laterally in the upper third of the shoots. They reach a length of 15 to 17 centimeters and a diameter of up to 10 centimeters. The green, spherical fruits have a diameter of up to 4 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Echinopsis × cabrerae is distributed in the Argentine provinces of La Rioja and Catamarca in the Monte vegetation at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters.
The first description as Trichocereus cabrerae by Roberto Kiesling was published in 1976. Gordon Douglas Rowley placed the species in the genus Echinopsis in 1979 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 221 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 37.
- ^ Roberto Kiesling: Novedades en Trichocereus (Cactaceae) . In: Hickenia . Volume 1, Number 6, 1976, pp. 30-31.
- ^ Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum . Volume 27, 1979, p. 5.
Web links
- Photos of Echinopsis × cabrerae