Echinopsis pojoensis
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Echinopsis pojoensis is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet pojoensis refers to the occurrence of the species near the Bolivian town of Pojo .
description
Echinopsis pojoensis grows individually. The spherical to short cylindrical, glaucous blue-green shoots reach heights of 8 to 10 centimeters with a diameter of 9 to 10 centimeters. The apex of the shoot is sunk. There are ten blunt ribs up to 1.5 centimeters high. The elliptical areoles on them are gray. From them arise seven to ten radiating, gray thorns that have a reddish tip.
The funnel-shaped, long-tube white flowers appear near the shoot tips and open at night. They are up to 17 centimeters long and have a diameter of 7 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Echinopsis pojoensis is distributed in the Bolivian department of Cochabamba in the province of Carrasco in middle altitudes around 2700 meters.
The first description by Martín Cárdenas was published in 1959.
Gonzalo Navarro treated Echinopsis pojoensis in 1996 as a synonym of Echinopsis huotii . Martin Lowry, however, put the species as a synonym for Echinopsis calorubra in 2002 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 240 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 188.
- ↑ Martín Cárdenas: Nouvelles Cactées Boliviennes . In: Cactus . Volume 14, number 64, Paris 1959, pp. 165-166.
Web links
- Photo of Echinopsis pojoensis