Echinopsis terscheckii
Echinopsis terscheckii
Echinopsis terscheckii is a species of the genus Echinopsis in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet honors terscheckii the court gardener Carl Adolph Terscheck from the garden of the Japanese Palace in Dresden.
Description
Echinopsis terscheckii grows tree-like, branched at the age rich like candelabra with several erect branches and reaches stature heights of 10 to 12 meters. It is formed with a diameter of up to 45 inches a significant strain. The cylindrical actuators have a diameter of 10 to 20 centimeters. There are eight to 18 significant blunt ribs available. The located on them large areolae are brownish and are 1.5 to 3 inches apart. From them spring from eight to 15 yellowish to brownish spines. An old areoles are often numerous. The spines have a length of 1 to 7 centimeters, or even longer.
The bell-shaped to funnel-shaped, white flowers appear on the side of the shoots. They are 15 to 20 inches long and have a diameter of up to 12.5 inches. Your Perikarpell and the corolla tube are occupied with dense white or brown wool. The spherical green fruit have a diameter of 3 to 4 centimeters.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Echinopsis terscheckii is common on dry slopes of the Andes foothills at altitudes of 500 to 1500 meters in the Bolivian department of Tarija and the Argentine provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan.
The first description as Cereus terscheckii by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer was published in 1837. Heimo Frederick and Gordon Douglas Rowley set the style in 1974 in the genus Echinopsis.
Further nomenclatural synonyms are Pilocereus terscheckii ( J.Parm. Pfeiff ex. ) Rümpler (1885 ) and Trichocereus terscheckii ( J.Parm. Pfeiff ex. ) Britton & Rose (1920). In addition, the following taxa were included as a synonym in the way: Trichocereus werdermannianus Backeb. (1936 ), Echinopsis werdermannianus ( Backeb. ) H.Friedrich & GDRowley (1974 ), Trichocereus terscheckii montanus var Backeb. (1951) and Echinopsis terscheckii montana var ( Backeb. ) H.Friedrich & GDRowley (1976).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Vulnerable (VU) ," ie, performed as endangered.