Copiapoa marginata
Copiapoa marginata
Copiapoa marginata is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet marginata comes from Latin and means provided with a rim, rimmed '.
Description
Copiapoa marginata grows individually or in groups, often forming with short, woody taproot. The grass green shoots are cylindrically shaped and often also tapers slightly towards the tip. They are 20 to 50 inches long and 7 to 10 centimeters in diameter. The 10 to 14 ribs are broad, blunt and hardly tuberculate. The areoles are very close together until smooth. The spines are black in old age becoming gray. There are one to three central spines from 2.5 to 4 centimeters in length and five to ten spines from 1 to 1.5 centimeters in length available.
The flowers are bright yellow. They smell and are 2.5 to 3.5 inches long. The round fruits are green or reddish, and measure up to one centimeter in diameter.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Copiapoa marginata is northward spread in Chile in the Atacama region south of Chaldera to just north of Chañaral.
The first description was in 1845 as Echinocactus marginatus by Joseph Salm- Dyck Reifferscheidt. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose set the style to the 1922 of them erected genus Copiapoa. Another synonym is Copiapoa Streptocaulon ( Hooker ) F.Ritter ( 1961).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT) ", ie out to be low risk.