Copiapoa echinoides
Copiapoa echinoides
Copiapoa echinoides is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet echinoides comes from the Greek and means similar to a hedgehog ' and refers to the prickly habit of the plant '.
Description
Copiapoa echinoides growing singly or forming dense cushions. The green shoots are formed festfleischig and spherical. Your crown is slightly flattened and woolly. They measure 7 to 18 inches in diameter. The 11 to 18 ribs are trimmed. The areoles are yellowish, at the age becoming gray. The thorns are chestnut- brown to black. They are just bent to gently uphill. There are up to three central spines 1-3 inches long and six to ten spines present.
The bright yellow flowers are fragrant. They are 3.5 to 4 inches long. The round fruits are brownish to red and have little shed.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Copiapoa echinoides is used in Chile in the Atacama region in Totoral.
The first description was in 1845 as Echinocactus echinoides by Joseph Salm- Dyck Reifferscheidt. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose set the style of 1922 established by them genus Copiapoa. Other synonyms are Hildmannia cupreata ( Poselg. ex Schum. ) Kreuzinger & Buining (1941, uncorr. Name ICBN article 11.4), Copiapoa cupreata ( Poselg. ex Rümpl. ) Backeb. (1959 ), Neoporteria tuberisculata var cupreata ( Poselg. ) Donald & GDRowley (1966) and Copiapoa echinoides var cuprea ( F.Ritter ) AEHoffm. (1989).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT) ", ie out to be low risk.