Weingartia fidaiana

Weingartia fidaiana
	Weingartia fidaiana var. Kargliana WR677
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Weingartia
Type :	Weingartia fidaiana
Scientific name
	Weingartia fidaiana
	( Backeb. ) Werderm.

Weingartia fidaiana is a species of plant in the genus Weingartia from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German cactus lover HF Fida from Mannheim , who published the magazine Der Kakteenfreund .

description

Weingartia fidaiana grows individually with depressed spherical to spherical, dark green to gray-green bodies. With a diameter of 6 centimeters, these reach heights of up to 4 centimeters and have a beet root up to 30 centimeters long, sometimes branched, thick. There are about 7 to 10 ribs. The 4 to 12 thorns are rigid, curved or protruding or bundled. They are brownish to black and 1 to 5 inches long.

The yellow, ocher, reddish to red flowers are funnel-shaped and appear in the apex. They are up to 5 centimeters long and have the same diameter. The depressed spherical to spherical fruits are dark green to reddish brown, dry up leathery when ripe and tear open transversely.

Distribution and systematics

Weingartia fidaiana is distributed in southern Bolivia in the Potosí and Tarija departments and in northern Argentina in the Jujuy province at altitudes of 2600 to 4000 meters, where it grows on stony soils in the Puna vegetation.

The first description as Echinocactus fidanus was published in 1933 by Curt Backeberg . Erich Werdermann placed the species in the genus Weingartia in 1937 . Synonyms are Gymnocalycium fidaianum (Backeb.) Hutchison and Rebutia fidaiana (Backeb.) DRHunt .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 644 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser and Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 83.
↑ Cactus friend. Illustrated monthly for cacti . Volume 2, HF Fda, Mannheim 1933, p. 104.
↑ Cactus lore united with the cactus friend . Neumann Verlag, Neudamm 1937, p. 21.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser and Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 83.

[2] Cactus friend. Illustrated monthly for cacti . Volume 2, HF Fda, Mannheim 1933, p. 104.

[3] Cactus lore united with the cactus friend . Neumann Verlag, Neudamm 1937, p. 21.