Echinopsis angelesiae

Echinopsis angelesiae
	Echinopsis angelesiae
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Echinopsis
Type :	Echinopsis angelesiae
Scientific name
	Echinopsis angelesiae
	( R.Kiesling ) GDRowley

Echinopsis angelesiae is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet angelesiae honors Angeles G. Lopez de Kiesling, who was married to the Argentine botanist Roberto Kiesling .

description

Echinopsis angelesiae grows shrubby, numerous branches from the base and forms low thickets of up to 1 meter in height. The ascending, cylindrical, light green shoots are opaque and reach a diameter of 6 to 6.5 centimeters. There are about twelve sharp-edged, low, blunt ribs that are notched. The oval areoles on it are sparsely woolly. From them arise stiff, awl thorns that are enlarged at their base . The single central spine is up to 2 inches long. The twelve radial spines are arranged in pairs on the sides. The lowest radial mandrel is longer than the others. The radial spines are up to 1.5 inches long.

The bell-shaped, tubular white flowers appear near the shoot tips. They are up to 20 centimeters long and have a diameter of 14 centimeters.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Echinopsis angelesiae is widespread in the Argentine Guachipas department at altitudes of 1400 meters.

The first description as Trichocereus angelesiae by Roberto Kiesling was published in 1931. Gordon Douglas Rowley placed the species in the genus Echinopsis in 1980 . Echinopsis angelesiae is related to Echinopsis strigosa .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 217 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 10.
↑ Darwiniana . Volume 21, Numbers 2-4, 1978, pp. 314-315.
^ Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum . Number 29, British section of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study, Leeds 1980, p. 5.
↑ Echinopsis angelesiae in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ortega-Baes, P., Kiesling, R. & Lowry, M., 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2014.

Web links

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Photos of Echinopsis angelesiae in their natural habitat

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 10.

[2] Darwiniana . Volume 21, Numbers 2-4, 1978, pp. 314-315.

[3] Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum . Number 29, British section of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study, Leeds 1980, p. 5.

[4] Echinopsis angelesiae in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ortega-Baes, P., Kiesling, R. & Lowry, M., 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2014.