Matucana
Matucana madisoniorum, habit and flowering.
Matucana is a genus of flowering plants of the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The botanical name of the genus refers to the location on the western slope of the Andes Cordillera Peruvian city Matucana, near which the first plants were found.
Description
The growing singly or branching at the base of the genus Matucana sometimes form cushion. Your spherical to cylindrical shoots reach stature heights of up to 50 centimeters. Her few to numerous ribs are low, wide and humped. The highly variable spikes are fine, stinging. Sometimes they are numerous, and there are usually few or absent.
The funnel-shaped to narrowly tubular - funnel-shaped, bright red to orange or pink or yellow flowers appear near the shoot tip and open on the day. They are often zygomorphic, that is, mirror symmetry, but can also be radial symmetry. Your Perikarpell and the corolla tube are occupied with bald or hairy areoles.
The spherical to oblong fruits tear along at 1-3 slots. They have a perennial flower residual and contain oval to cap -shaped seeds.
Systematics and distribution
The genus Matucana is distributed solely in Peru.
Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose introduced in 1922 for the species Echinocactus haynii Otto in Salm - Dyck to the new, then monotypic, genus Matucana. This is so that the type species of the genus. The genus Matucana include the following types:
- Matucana aurantiaca Matucana aurantiaca subsp. aurantiaca
- Matucana aurantiaca subsp. currundayensis
- Matucana aurantiaca subsp. hastifera
- Matucana haynei subsp. haynei
- Matucana haynei subsp. herzogiana
- Matucana haynei subsp. hystrix
- Matucana haynei subsp. myriacantha
Synonyms are Eomatucana F.Ritter and Submatucana Backeb.