Echinopsis uyupampensis

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

Echinopsis uyupampensis is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet uyupampensis refers to the occurrence of the species near Uyupampa in the Peruvian region of Arequipa .

description

Echinopsis uyupampensis has a shrubby growth with several prostrate to ascending branches . The slender cylindrical shoots have a diameter of up to 3 centimeters and are up to 200 centimeters long. There are nine narrow and flat ribs that are not well humped. The small areoles on them are light brown. Eight to ten irregularly arranged thorns arise from them , which are thickened at their base. The thorns have a length of 0.2 to 0.6 centimeters.

The funnel-shaped, white flowers are reddish on the outside. They are up to six inches long.

Distribution and systematics

Echinopsis uyupampensis is widespread in the Peruvian region of Arequipa at altitudes around 3000 meters.

The first description as Trichocereus uyupampensis by Curt Backeberg was published in 1936. Heimo Friedrich and Gordon Douglas Rowley placed the species in 1974 in the genus Echinopsis .

Echinopsis uyupampensis is poorly known.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 248 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 248.
^ Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 205, 412 .
^ 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. 99.

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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. 248.

[2] Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 205, 412 .

[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. 99.