Escobaria orcuttii

Escobaria orcuttii
	Escobaria orcuttii var macraxina
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Escobaria
Type :	Escobaria orcuttii
Scientific name
	Escobaria orcuttii
	Boed.

Escobaria orcuttii SB257

Escobaria orcuttii is a species of plant in the genus Escobaria from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet orcuttii honors the American Charles Russell Orcutt . An English common name is "Snowball Beehive Cactus".

description

Escobaria orcuttii usually grows singly and only sprouts occasionally. The cylindrical shoots have a diameter of 9 centimeters and can reach heights of up to 15 centimeters. The warts are 4 to 12 millimeters long. The nine to 22 white central spines have a darker tip and lengths of 0.9 to 2.2 centimeters. The 30 to 57 radial spines are also white and up to 2.5 centimeters long.

The more or less pink flowers reach a diameter of 1.2 to 2 centimeters. The slender, ellipsoidal, club-shaped fruits are red. Occasionally some are also green.

Systematics and distribution

Escobaria orcuttii is common in the United States in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico .

The first description by Friedrich Bödeker was published in 1933. Nomenclatory synonyms are Coryphantha strobiliformis var. Orcuttii (Boed.) LDBenson (1969), Coryphantha orcuttii (Boed.) Zimmerman (1972), Escobaria sneedii subsp. orcuttii (Boed.) Lüthy (1999) and Neolloydia orcuttii Rose ex Orcutt (nom. inval. ICBN -Article 32.1c?).

The following varieties can be distinguished:

Escobaria orcuttii var. Orcuttii
Escobaria orcuttii var. Koenigii Castetter, P.Pierce & KHSchwer.
Escobaria orcuttii var. Macraxina Castetter, P. Pierce & KHSchwer.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 276 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 172.
↑ A Mammillaria Comparison Key . Neumann, Neudamm 1933, p. 17.

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Photos of Escobaria orcuttii var. Koenigii

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 172.

[2] A Mammillaria Comparison Key . Neumann, Neudamm 1933, p. 17.