Echinopsis tacaquirensis

Echinopsis tacaquirensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Echinopsis
Species:
E. tacaquirensis
Binomial name
Echinopsis tacaquirensis
(Vaupel) Friedrich & G.D. Rowley 1974
Synonyms
  • Cereus tacaquirensis Vaupel 1916
  • Trichocereus tacaquirensis (Vaupel) Cardenas 1959

Echinopsis tacaquirensis, is a species of Echinopsis cactus found in Bolivia.[2]

Description

Echinopsis tacaquirensis grows as a shrub, branches out from the base with crowded, ascending twigs and reaches heights of growth of up to 2.5 metres. The robust, cylindrical, dark green shoots can reach a diameter of up to 15 cm (5.9 in) with up to nine ribs that are up to 2 cm (0.79 in) high. The large areoles located on them are white and are up to 1.5 cm (0.59 in) apart. The spines emerging from them can occasionally not be clearly distinguished into central spines and radial spines. The radial spines are white to pink to blackish are bristly to needle-like and sometimes intertwined. They have a length 1 of 6 cm (2.4 in).

The funnel-shaped flowers are white to pale pink and up to 23 cm (9.1 in) long. Your flower tube is hairy brown. The dark green fruits have a diameter of up to 4 cm (1.6 in).[3]

Distribution

Echinopsis tacaquirensis is found in southern Bolivia at altitudes of 2000 to 3500 meters.

Taxonomy

The first description as Cereus tacaquirensis by Friedrich Vaupel was published in 1916. Curt Backeberg placed the species in the genus Trichocereus in 1959. Another nomenclature synonym is Trichocereus tacaquirensis (Vaupel) Cárdenas ex Backeb. Trichocereus taquimbalensis is considered a subspecies of the closely related species Trichocereus tacaquirensis.[4]

References

  1. ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  2. ^ "Echinopsis tacaquirensis". Tropicos. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  3. ^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). p. 245. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
  4. ^ "Trichocereus taquimbalensis Echinopsis". 2016-04-19. p. trichocereus.net. Retrieved 2024-08-08.