Echinopsis sucrensis

Echinopsis sucrensis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Echinopsis
Type :	Echinopsis sucrensis
Scientific name
	Echinopsis sucrensis
	Cardenas

Echinopsis sucrensis is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet sucrensis refers to the occurrence of the species near Sucre in the Bolivian province of Oropeza .

description

Echinopsis sucrensis usually forms groups. The spherical to short cylindrical, gray-green shoots reach heights of 3 to 7 centimeters with a diameter of 4 to 7 centimeters. There are about twelve ribs that are sharp-edged near the apex of the shoot and rounded below. The gray areoles on them are close together. From them arise light gray thorns that are thickened at their base. The single, awl and downwardly directed central spine is 1.5 to 2 inches long. The 14 to 16 needle-like radial spines lie on the shoot surface and are 0.8 to 1.5 centimeters long.

The funnel-shaped, white flowers appear on the side of the shoots and open at night. They are up to 21 centimeters long and have a diameter of 10 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Echinopsis sucrensis is widespread in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca near Sucre at altitudes around 2750 meters.

The first description by Martín Cárdenas was published in 1963.

Gonzalo Navarro treated Echinopsis sucrensis in 1996 as a synonym of Echinopsis huotii subsp. vallegrandensis .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 244-245 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 233.
↑ Martín Cárdenas: New Bolivian Cacti. Part VIII (b) . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 35, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1963, pp. 200-201.
↑ Gonzalo Navarro: Catálago ecológico preliminar de las cactáceas de Bolivia . In: Lazaroa . Volume 17, 1996, p. 50 ( online ).

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 233.

[2] Martín Cárdenas: New Bolivian Cacti. Part VIII (b) . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 35, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1963, pp. 200-201.

[3] Gonzalo Navarro: Catálago ecológico preliminar de las cactáceas de Bolivia . In: Lazaroa . Volume 17, 1996, p. 50 ( online ).