Echinopsis brasiliensis

Echinopsis brasiliensis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Echinopsis
Type :	Echinopsis brasiliensis
Scientific name
	Echinopsis brasiliensis
	Frič ex Pazout

Echinopsis brasiliensis is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet brasiliensis refers to the occurrence of the species in Brazil .

description

Echinopsis brasiliensis grows solitary or occasionally sprouts. The spherical, glossy gray-green shoots are rather small. There are nine sharp-edged ribs . The small areoles on it are grayish white and are up to 1 centimeter apart. The seven to nine thorns emerging from them are yellowish white and have a darker tip. The radiating thorns are subphrate. They have a length of up to 1 centimeter.

The bright red flowers are fragrant and likely to open at night. They reach a diameter of up to 10 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Echinopsis brasiliensis is common in the south of Brazil .

The first description by Frantisek Pazout was published in 1963, using a name suggested by Alberto Vojtěch Frič .

Echinopsis brasiliensis is not well known. Friedrich Ritter treated Echinopsis brasiliensis in 1979 in the first volume of cacti in South America as a synonym for Echinopsis oxygona .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 220 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 31.
↑ Frantisek Pažout: Friciana Rada . Number 17, 1963, p. 3.
↑ Cacti in South America. Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 1: Brazil / Uruguay / Paraguay. Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1979, p. 239.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 31.

[2] Frantisek Pažout: Friciana Rada . Number 17, 1963, p. 3.

[3] Cacti in South America. Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 1: Brazil / Uruguay / Paraguay. Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1979, p. 239.