Echinopsis yuquina

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

Echinopsis yuquina is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family(Cactaceae). Thespecific epithet yuquina refers to the occurrence of the species at Yuquina near the Bolivian city of Culpina .

description

Echinopsis yuquina usually forms groups that can occasionally consist of up to 100 individual shoots. The spherical to short cylindrical shoots reach a diameter of 5 centimeters and heights of up to 15 centimeters. There are 13 to 16 clearly humped ribs , with the humps up to 1 centimeter high. The circular to oval areoles on them are white. Brownish, needle-like and piercing thorns spring from them . The approximately four central spines are often crossed and up to 3 centimeters long. The nine to eleven radiant radial spines have a length of up to 1 centimeter.

The short funnel-shaped flowers are red. They are up to 4 inches long and 3 centimeters in diameter. The egg-shaped, semi-dry fruits tear open.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Echinopsis yuquina is widespread in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca .

The first description as Lobivia rauschii by Ernst Zecher was published in 1974. David Richard Hunt placed the species in 1991 in the genus Echinopsis . He had to choose a new name because Heimo Friedrich had already described a species with the name Echinopsis rauschii in 1974 .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

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. 263.
↑ [Anonymous]: Lobivia rauschii Zecher spec. nova . In: Succulenta Volume 53, Number 3, 1974, pp. 42-43.
↑ David Hunt, Nigel Taylor (Ed.): Notes on miscellaneous genera of Cactaceae . In: Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 88.
^ H. Friedrich: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 25, Number 4, 1974, p. 83.
↑ Echinopsis yuquina in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Lowry, M., 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2014.

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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. 263.

[2] [Anonymous]: Lobivia rauschii Zecher spec. nova . In: Succulenta Volume 53, Number 3, 1974, pp. 42-43.

[3] David Hunt, Nigel Taylor (Ed.): Notes on miscellaneous genera of Cactaceae . In: Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, p. 88.

[4] H. Friedrich: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 25, Number 4, 1974, p. 83.

[5] Echinopsis yuquina in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Lowry, M., 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2014.