Matucana haynei

Matucana haynei
	Matucana haynei subsp. myriacantha
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Matucana
Type :	Matucana haynei
Scientific name
	Matucana haynei
	( Otto in Salm-Dyck ) Britton & Rose

Matucana haynei is a species of plant in the genus Matucana from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet haynei honors the German botanist and pharmacist Friedrich Gottlob Hayne .

description

Matucana haynei grows individually or sprouts with spherical to broadly cylindrical, green shoots and reaches heights of up to 30 centimeters with diameters of 20 centimeters. There are 14 to 30 tubercular ribs . The variable white to light brown thorns turn gray with age. The one to 20 central spines are 1 to 7 centimeters long, the 14 to 45 radial spines 0.8 to 4 centimeters long.

The mostly crooked flowers are carmine red to salmon-colored to a little purple-red. They are 4 to 9 centimeters long and up to 4 centimeters in diameter. The spherical to club-shaped, reddish green fruits are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long and reach the same diameter.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Matucana haynei in Peru from the region of La Libertad to the region of Arequipa in the Andes widespread -Westabdachung at altitudes from 1,500 to 4,100 meters.

It was first described as Echinocactus haynii in 1850 by Christoph Friedrich Otto in Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dycks Cacteae in horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849 . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1922 in the genus Matucana . Synonyms are Cereus haynii (Otto in Salm-Dack) Croucher (1878), Borzicactus haynei (Otto in Salm-Dack) Kimnach (1960) and Arequipa haynii (Otto in Salm-Dack) Krain (1963).

The following subspecies are distinguished:

Matucana haynei subsp. haynei
Matucana haynei subsp. herzogiana (Backeb.) Mottram
Matucana haynei subsp. hystrix (Rauh & Backeb.) Mottram
Matucana haynei subsp. myriacantha (Vaupel) Mottram

Matucana haynei subsp. herzogiana
Matucana haynei subsp. hystrix

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. 418-419 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 107.
↑ Cacteae in horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849, secundum tribus et genera digestæ additis adnotationibus botanicis characteribusque specierum in enumeratione diagnostica cactearum doct. Pfeifferi non descriptarum . Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1850, p. 165 (online) .
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape III . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1922, p. 102 .
↑ Matucana haynei in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ostalaza, C. & Roque, J., 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2014.

Web links

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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. 107.

[2] Cacteae in horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849, secundum tribus et genera digestæ additis adnotationibus botanicis characteribusque specierum in enumeratione diagnostica cactearum doct. Pfeifferi non descriptarum . Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1850, p. 165 (online) .

[3] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape III . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1922, p. 102 .

[4] Matucana haynei in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ostalaza, C. & Roque, J., 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2014.