Echinopsis tulhuayacensis

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

Echinopsis tulhuayacensis is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet tulhuayacensis refers to the occurrence of the species in Tulhuayaca .

description

Echinopsis tulhuayacensis grows shrubby , branched from the base or slightly above and reaches heights of growth of up to 2 meters. Occasionally a short trunk is formed. The cylindrical, dark green shoots are 10 to 12 centimeters in diameter. There are seven to nine ribs that are notched and form low humps. The areoles on them are initially yellow and later turn gray. Out of them arise protruding, whitish-gray thorns , which are pointed darker. The three to four central spines are up to 8 inches long. The approximately eight radial spines have a length of up to 2.5 centimeters.

The funnel-shaped, light pink flowers have a cream-colored throat and appear to the side and near the shoot tips. They are about eight inches long. Your flower tube is covered with black hair . The dark green fruits are hairy brown and have a diameter of up to 4.5 centimeters.

Distribution and systematics

Echinopsis tulhuayacensis is common in the Peruvian regions of Huancavelica and possibly Junín at altitudes of 3400 meters.

The first description as Trichocereus tulhuayacensis by Carlos M. Ochoa was published in 1957. Heimo Friedrich and Gordon Douglas Rowley placed the species in 1974 in the genus Echinopsis .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 247 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 245.
↑ In: Curt Backeberg: A pink blooming Trichocereus from Peru . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 8, Number 7, 1957, pp. 106-107.
^ 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. 98.

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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. 245.

[2] In: Curt Backeberg: A pink blooming Trichocereus from Peru . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 8, Number 7, 1957, pp. 106-107.

[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. 98.