Echinopsis marsoneri
{{Short description|Species of cactu}}
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Echinopsis marsoneri
| authority = Werderm.
| synonyms ={{collapsible list|
- Lobivia chrysantha subsp. marsoneri {{au|(Werderm.) Rausch 1982}}
- Lobivia chrysantha var. marsoneri {{au|(Werderm.) Rausch 1975}}
- Lobivia marsoneri {{au|(Werderm.) Backeb. 1936}}
- Andenea gregeri {{au|Kreuz. 1835}}
- Lobivia buiningiana {{au|F.Ritter 1980}}
- Lobivia chrysantha var. glauca {{au|(Rausch) G.D.Rowley 1982}}
- Lobivia chrysantha var. muhriae {{au|(Backeb.) G.D.Rowley 1982}}
- Lobivia chrysantha subvar. rubescens {{au|(Backeb.) Rausch 1975}}
- Lobivia chrysantha var. rubescens {{au|(Backeb.) Rausch 1982}}
- Lobivia chrysantha subvar. vatteri {{au|(Krainz) Rausch 1975}}
- Lobivia chrysantha var. vatteri {{au|(Krainz) Rausch 1982}}
- Lobivia glauca {{au|Rausch 1971}}
- Lobivia haageana {{au|Backeb. 1933}}
- Lobivia haageana f. albihepatica {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana var. albihepatica {{au|Backeb. 1954}}
- Lobivia haageana var. bicolor {{au|Backeb. 1956 publ. 1957}}
- Lobivia haageana f. bicolor {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana f. chrysantha {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana var. chrysantha {{au|Backeb. 1954}}
- Lobivia haageana var. cinnabarina {{au|Backeb. 1954}}
- Lobivia haageana f. cinnabarina {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana f. croceantha {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana var. croceantha {{au|Backeb. 1956 publ. 1957}}
- Lobivia haageana var. durispina {{au|Backeb. 1956 publ. 1957}}
- Lobivia haageana f. durispina {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana f. grandiflora-stellata {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana var. grandiflora-stellata {{au|Backeb. 1956 publ. 1957}}
- Lobivia haageana f. leucoerythrantha {{au|(Backeb.) Krainz 1960}}
- Lobivia haageana var. leucoerythrantha {{au|Backeb. 1956 publ. 1957}}
- Lobivia iridescens {{au|Backeb. 1936}}
- Lobivia jajoana f. buiningiana {{au|(F.Ritter) J.Ullmann 1992}}
- Lobivia jajoana var. glauca {{au|(Rausch) J.Ullmann 1992}}
- Lobivia jajoana var. nigrostoma {{au|(Kreuz. & Buining) Backeb. 1959}}
- Lobivia jajoana var. vatteri {{au|(Krainz) J.Ullmann 1990}}
- Lobivia marsoneri var. haageana {{au|(Backeb.) J.Ullmann 1992}}
- Lobivia marsoneri var. iridescens {{au|(Backeb.) Rausch 1985-1986 publ. 1987}}
- Lobivia marsoneri var. muhriae {{au|(Backeb.) J.Ullmann 1992}}
- Lobivia marsoneri var. rubescens {{au|(Backeb.) J.Ullmann 1992}}
- Lobivia marsoneri var. uitewaaleana {{au|(Buining) J.Ullmann 1992}}
- Lobivia muhriae {{au|Backeb. 1963}}
- Lobivia muhriae var. flaviflora {{au|Backeb. 1963}}
- Lobivia nigrostoma {{au|Kreuz. 1950}}
- Lobivia rubescens {{au|Backeb. 1936}}
- Lobivia tuberculosa {{au|F.Ritter 1980}}
- Lobivia uitewaaleana {{au|Buining 1951}}
- Lobivia vatteri {{au|Krainz 1947}}
- Lobivia vatteri var. robusta Backeb. 1956 publ. 1957}}
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Echinopsis marsoneri is a species of cactus from Argentina and Bolivia.{{cite web | title=Echinopsis marsoneri Werderm. — Plants of the World Online | website=Plants of the World Online | url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:88428-2#synonyms | access-date=2023-10-07}}
Description
Echinopsis marsoneri usually grows singly and has a short beet root. The spherical, light gray-green shoots reach a diameter of {{cvt|8|cm}} and grow to the same height. There are about 20 compressed ribs arranged in a spiral pattern. The whitish gray to yellowish thorns arising from the areoles are darker at their base. The two to five protruding, often hooked central spines are thickened at their base and up to {{cvt|7|cm}} long. The eight to twelve marginal spines are up to {{cvt|3|cm}} long.
The short, funnel-shaped to bell-shaped, yellow, orange or red flowers have a darker throat. They are {{cvt|5 to 6|cm}} long and have the same diameter. The egg-shaped fruits are semi-dry to sticky.{{cite book | last1=Anderson | first1=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | title=Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon | publisher=Ulmer | publication-place=Stuttgart (Hohenheim) | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page=236}}
Distribution
Echinopsis marsoneri is widespread in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca and the Argentine provinces of Jujuy and Salta at altitudes of 2500 to 4500 meters.
Taxonomy
The first description by Erich Werdermann was published in 1932.{{cite journal | last=Werdermann | first=E. | title=Neue sukkulente Pflanzen im Botanischen Garten Berlin‐Dahlem | journal=Repertorium Novarum Specierum Regni Vegetabilis | publisher=Wiley | volume=30 | issue=1–8 | year=1932 | issn=0375-121X | doi=10.1002/fedr.19320300103 | pages=52–66}} The specific epithet marsoneri honors the Argentine cactus collector Oreste Marsoner. Nomenclature synonyms are Lobivia chrysantha subsp. marsoneri (Werderm.) Rausch (1975), Lobivia chrysantha var. marsoneri (Werderm.) Rausch (1975) and Lobivia chrysantha subsp. marsoneri (Werderm.) Rausch ex G.D. Rowley (1982).
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Echinopsis marsoneri|Echinopsis marsoneri}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Echinopsis marsoneri|Echinopsis marsoneri}}
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