Echinopsis skottsbergii

Echinopsis skottsbergii
	Echinopsis skottsbergii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Echinopsis
Type :	Echinopsis skottsbergii
Scientific name
	Echinopsis skottsbergii
	( Backeb. ) H.Friedrich & GDRowley

Echinopsis skottsbergii is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet skottsbergii honors the Swedish botanist and explorer Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg .

description

Echinopsis skottsbergii grows shrubby with a few columnar twigs that branch out from the base and reaches heights of up to 2 meters. The cylindrical, gray-green shoots reach a diameter of up to 14 centimeters. There are 16 to 21 ribs . The areoles on them are grayish black. The thorns emerging from them are light brown to gray. The mostly four to six central spines are up to 12 inches long. The 22 to 26 bendable, spread out, bristly radial spines are not particularly piercing and are up to 6 centimeters long.

The funnel-shaped, white, pink-tinged flowers appear on the side of the shoots and open during the day. They are 10 to 12 inches long. Your flower tube is covered with black or gray hair . The spherical fruits are green.

Distribution and systematics

Echinopsis skottsbergii is common in the Chilean region of Coquimbo at altitudes of 200 to 800 meters.

The first description as Trichocereus skottsbergii by Curt Backeberg was published in 1950. Heimo Friedrich and Gordon Douglas Rowley placed the species in 1974 in the genus Echinopsis .

The following taxa were included in the species as a synonym : Trichocereus skottsbergii var. Breviatus Backeb. (1957) and Echinopsis skottsbergii var. Breviata (Backeb.) H. Friedrich & GDRowley (1974).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 243 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 222.
^ Acta Horti Gothoburgensis . Volume 18, 1950, p. 146.
^ Gordon Douglas Rowley: Reunion of the genus Echinopsis . In: IOS Bulletin. Journal of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study . Volume 3, Number 3, 1974, p. 97.

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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. 222.

[2] Acta Horti Gothoburgensis . Volume 18, 1950, p. 146.

[3] Gordon Douglas Rowley: Reunion of the genus Echinopsis . In: IOS Bulletin. Journal of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study . Volume 3, Number 3, 1974, p. 97.