Oroya peruviana

Oroya peruviana
	Oroya peruviana
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Oroya
Type :	Oroya peruviana
Scientific name
	Oroya peruviana
	( K.Schum. ) Britton & Rose

Oroya peruviana
Plate 88 from 1906 from Blooming Cacti

Oroya peruviana is a species of plant in the genus Oroya from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Oroya peruviana usually grows individually with depressed spherical to short cylindrical, blue-green shoots that reach heights of 5 to 20 centimeters with diameters of 10 to 14 centimeters. There are 12 to 30 rounded, notched, and humped ribs . The white areoles are greatly elongated. The yellowish to reddish brown to dark brown thorns are difficult to distinguish into central and radial spines. The 1 to 3 central spines are protruding and up to 2 centimeters long. The 15 to 24 comb-shaped arranged radial spines are up to 1.5 centimeters long.

The flowers often appear densely packed near the shoot tip of young areoles. They are carmine red with a yellowish base and yellowish inside. The flowers are up to 3 centimeters long and reach a diameter of 2.2 centimeters. The short club-shaped fruits are reddish brown.

Systematics and distribution

Oroya peruviana is common in the Peruvian regions of Junín , Cusco and Puno at altitudes of 3000 to 4200 meters.

The first description as Echinocactus peruvianus was published in 1903 by Karl Moritz Schumann . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Oroya in 1922 .

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

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 486 .

Individual evidence

↑ General description of the cacti . 1903, p. 113.
^ 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 .
↑ Oroya peruviana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ostalaza, C. & Cáceres, F., 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2014.

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[1] General description of the cacti . 1903, p. 113.

[2] 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 .

[3] Oroya peruviana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Ostalaza, C. & Cáceres, F., 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2014.