Matucana huagalensis

Matucana huagalensis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Matucana
Type :	Matucana huagalensis
Scientific name
	Matucana huagalensis
	( Donald & ABLau ) Bregman , Meerst. , Melis & ABPullen

Matucana huagalensis is a species of plant in the genus Matucana from the cactus family(Cactaceae). Thespecific epithet huagalensis refers to the occurrence of the species on the Hacienda Hugal.

description

Matucana huagalensis usually grows individually and only rarely sprouts with flattened spherical to broadly cylindrical, green shoots and reaches heights of up to 25 centimeters with diameters of 15 centimeters. There are about 18 sharp-edged, humped ribs . Some of the white to light brown thorns have a darker tip. The three to four central spines are up to 4 centimeters long, the 18 to 20 radial spines 1 to 2 centimeters long.

The slightly crooked flowers are light pink to possibly almost white. They are up to four inches long. The spherical fruits are green.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Matucana huagalensis is distributed in the Peruvian region of Cajamarca near the confluence of the Río Marañón and Río Crisnejas at altitudes of 2000 to 2500 meters.

It was first described as Borzicactus huagalensis in 1970 by John Donald Donald and Alfred Bernhard Lau . Rob Bregman and his co-authors put the species in the genus Matucana in 1988 . A synonym is Submatucana huagalensis (Donald & ABLau) hort. (no year, nom. invalid ICBN -Article 29.1).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. listed as critically endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 419 .
Nelson Cieza Padilla, Olivier Klopfenstein: Investigations at the type locality of Matacana huagalensis . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 54, Number 12, 2003, pp. 313-318.

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 111.
↑ National Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 25, 1970, p. 33.
^ R. Bregman, A. Meerstadt, P. Melis, AB Pullen: Het geslacht Matucana Br. Et R .: 17 . In: Succulenta . Volume 67, number 7/8, 1988, pp. 155-157.
↑ Matucana huagalensis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ostalaza, C. & Roque, J., 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2014.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 111.

[2] National Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 25, 1970, p. 33.

[3] R. Bregman, A. Meerstadt, P. Melis, AB Pullen: Het geslacht Matucana Br. Et R .: 17 . In: Succulenta . Volume 67, number 7/8, 1988, pp. 155-157.

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