Echinopsis spinibarbis

Echinopsis spinibarbis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Echinopsis
Type :	Echinopsis spinibarbis
Scientific name
	Echinopsis spinibarbis
	( Otto ex Pfeiff. ) AE Hoffm.

Echinopsis spinibarbis is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet spinibarbis is derived from the Latin words spina for 'thorn' and barba for 'beard' and refers to the dense thorns of the species.

description

Echinopsis spinibarbis grows branching and reaches heights of up to 4 meters. The shoots reach a diameter of up to 7.5 centimeters. There are twelve to thirteen ribs . About 20 thorns arise from the areoles on them . The central spines are up to 15 centimeters long. The radial spines have a length of up to 1.8 centimeters.

The flowers are white to pink and 3 to 6 inches long. Your flower tube is hairy pale yellowish brown. The light brown hairy fruits are about 7 centimeters long.

Distribution and systematics

Echinopsis spinibarbis is widespread in central Chile .

The first description as Cereus spinibarbis by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer was published in 1837. Adriana E. Hoffmann placed the species in 1989 in the genus Echinopsis .

Further nomenclature synonyms are Echinocereus spinibarbis (Otto ex Pfeiffer) K.Schum. (1895), Eulychnia spinibarbis (Otto ex Pfeiffer) Britton & Rose (1920) and Trichocereus spinibarbis (Otto ex Pfeiffer) F.Ritter (1965).

The use of the name Echinopsis spinibarbis is problematic. The species was originally described without the flowers and fruits being known. It was used for Eulychnia acida and Eulychnia breviflora as well as for plants related to Echinopsis chiloensis .

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literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 244 .
NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 82-83 ( online ).
Walther Haage : cacti from A to Z . 3. Edition. Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-494-01142-7 , p. 214 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 225.
^ Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer: Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 86 ( online ).
^ Adriana E. Hoffmann J., Helmut Walter, Andrés Jullían: Cactaceas en la Flora Silvestre de Chile: una guía para la identificación de los cactos que crecen en el país . Santiago 1989, pp. 90-91.

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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. 225.

[2] Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer: Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 86 ( online ).

[3] Adriana E. Hoffmann J., Helmut Walter, Andrés Jullían: Cactaceas en la Flora Silvestre de Chile: una guía para la identificación de los cactos que crecen en el país . Santiago 1989, pp. 90-91.