Copiapoa coquimbana
Copiapoa coquimbana Panel 121 from 1910 from Blooming cactus
Copiapoa coquimbana is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet coquimbana comes from Latin and means, from the province Coquimba originating in Chile '.
Description
Copiapoa coquimbana often forms large cushions. The spherical or short cylindrical shoots are bright green to blue-green. They have a diameter of 5-14 centimeters. The 10 to 20 ribs are indistinct, dull or even more or less tuberculate. The areoles are first woolly but later naked. The spines are black and aged then gray. Central spines are often missing. Chance of projecting central spines were observed with a length of up to six inches up to three. The four to nine spines are curved, horizontal and radiating up to a centimeter long.
The yellow flowers have a red center stripe. They are 2.5 to 5.5 inches long. The fruits are reddish brown.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Copiapoa coquimbana is used in Chile in the Atacama region and in the Región de Coquimbo of Huasco to just south of the National Park Bosque de Fray Jorge and inland in the valleys of Elqui and Choros.
The first description was in 1886 as Echinocactus coquimbanus by Karl-Theodor Rümpler. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose set the style to the 1922 of them erected genus Copiapoa.
Other synonyms are Copiapoa coquimbana var pendulina ( F.Ritter ) AEHoffm. (1989), Copiapoa coquimbana subsp. pendulina ( F.Ritter ) Doweld (2002), Copiapoa coquimbana var alticostata ( F.Ritter ) AEHoffm. (1989 ), Copiapoa coquimbana var pseudocoquimbana ( F.Ritter ) AEHoffm. (1989), Copiapoa coquimbana subsp. pseudocoquimbana ( F.Ritter ) Doweld (2002), Copiapoa coquimbana var vallenarensis ( F.Ritter ) AEHoffm. (1989) and Copiapoa coquimbana subsp. vallenarensis ( F.Ritter ) Doweld ( 2002).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Least Concern ( LC) ," ie, than not led at risk.