Echinopsis fabrisii
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Echinopsis fabrisii is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet fabrisii honors the Argentine botanist Humberto Antonio Fabris (1924–1976).
description
Echinopsis fabrisii grows as a shrub with three to ten branches that only branch from the base. The upright branches are of different lengths. The longest of them are occasionally prostrate. The spherical to short cylindrical shoots have a diameter of 20 centimeters and are up to 100 centimeters long. The rounded tip of the shoot is sometimes slightly crooked. There are about 22 ribs that are slightly humped. The whitish areoles on them are 1.5 to 2 centimeters apart. The ten or so stiff, awkward thorns that spring from them are brownish red. They cannot be differentiated into central and radial spines. The thorns are 1 to 6 centimeters long.
The broad, bell-shaped, white flowers are up to 17 centimeters long. They appear near the shoot tips.
Distribution and systematics
Echinopsis fabrisii is distributed in the Argentine province of Jujuy in the Andes at altitudes of 2000 to 3500 meters.
The first description as Trichocereus fabrisii 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. 228 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 81.
- ^ Roberto Kiesling: Hickenia . Volume 1, Number 6, 1976, pp. 29-30.
- ^ Gordon Douglas Rowley: Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum . Number 27, 1979, p. 5.