Echinopsis candicans
Echinopsis candicans
Echinopsis candicans is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet candicans comes from the Latin, means becoming pure white ' and refers to the color of the flowers.
Description
Echinopsis candicans grows bushy and forms groups of 1-3 meters in diameter. The initially spherical and later cylindrical, erect or spreading, bright green shoots reach a length of up to 60 centimeters and a diameter of 14 centimeters. The engine apex is rounded. There are nine to eleven low ribs present, which are usually dull. The present thereon large areolae are white and are 2 to 3 inches apart. From them arise pfriemliche, brownish yellow and something mamorierte thorns. The central spines are up to 10 centimeters long. The ten or more unequal spines are laid, and have a length of up to four centimeters.
The funnel- shaped white flowers are fragrant and open in the night. They are 18 to 23 inches long and can reach 11 to 19 centimeters in diameter. The spherical to ellipsoidal fruit is red when ripe and tear along to.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Echinopsis candicans is common in the foothills of the Andes and the Pampas Sierras at altitudes of 100 to 2000 meters in the Argentine provinces of Mendoza, San Juan, Córdoba, La Rioja, La Pampa, Buenos Aires and San Luis.
The first description as Cereus candicans by Joseph Salm- Dyck Reifferscheidt was published in 1834. David Richard Hunt presented the type 1987 in the genus Echinopsis.
Nomenclatural synonyms are Echinocactus candicans ( Gillies ex Salm- Dyck ) hort. ex Pfeiff. (1837, nom. Inval. ICBN Article 32.1c ), Echinocereus candicans ( Gillies ex Salm- Dyck ) hort. ex Rümpler (1885 ) and Trichocereus candicans ( Gillies ex Salm- Dyck ) Britton & Rose (1920). In addition, numerous other taxa were included as a synonym in the very variable species.
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Least Concern ( LC) ," ie, than not led at risk.