Lobivia ancistrophora
{{Short description|Species of cactus}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Echinopsis subdenudata 1.JPG
|status = VU
|status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Lobivia
| species = ancistrophora
| authority = (Speg.) Schlumpb. 2012
| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets=on
|Echinopsis ancistrophora {{small|Speg.}}
|Mesechinopsis ancistrophora {{small|(Speg.) Y.Itô}}
|Pseudolobivia ancistrophora {{small|(Speg.) Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis ancistrophora var. graulichii {{small|(Frič) J.Ullmann}}
|Echinopsis ancistrophora var. hamatacantha {{small|(Backeb.) Rausch}}
|Echinopsis ancistrophora var. polyancistra {{small|(Backeb.) Rausch}}
|Echinopsis hamatacantha {{small|Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis hamatacantha {{small|Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis leucorhodantha {{small|Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis lobivioides {{small|Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis obrepanda subsp. tapecuana {{small|(F.Ritter) G.Navarro}}
|Echinopsis pelecyrhachis {{small|Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis pelecyrhachis var. lobivioides {{small|(Backeb.) Friedrich}}
|Echinopsis polyancistra {{small|Backeb.}}
|Echinopsis subdenudata {{small|Cárdenas}}
|Echinopsis tapecuana {{small|F.Ritter}}
|Lobivia graulichii {{small|Frič}}
|Lobivia subdenudata {{small|(Cárdenas) Schlumpb.}}
|Mesechinopsis hamatacantha {{small|(Backeb.) Y.Itô}}
|Mesechinopsis leucorhodantha {{small|(Backeb.) Y.Itô}}
|Mesechinopsis lobivioides {{small|(Backeb.) Y.Itô}}
|Mesechinopsis nakajimae {{small|Y.Itô}}
|Mesechinopsis pelecyrhachis {{small|(Backeb.) Y.Itô}}
|Mesechinopsis polyancistra {{small|(Backeb.) Y.Itô}}
|Pseudolobivia hamatacantha {{small|(Backeb.) Backeb.}}
|Pseudolobivia leucorhodantha {{small|(Backeb.) Backeb. ex Krainz}}
|Pseudolobivia lobivioides {{small|(Backeb.) Backeb. ex Krainz}}
|Pseudolobivia pelecyrhachis {{small|(Backeb.) Backeb. ex Krainz}}
|Pseudolobivia pelecyrhachis var. lobivioides {{small|(Backeb.) Backeb.}}
|Pseudolobivia polyancistra {{small|(Backeb.) Backeb.}}
}}
}}
Lobivia ancistrophora (commonly called domino cactus,{{Cite web|url=https://urbansproutsstore.com/blogs/care-archives/february-succulent-domino-cactus|title=February Succulent - Domino Cactus|last=Stearns|first=Jennifer|website=Urban Sprouts|language=en|access-date=2019-11-09}} night blooming hedgehog, Easter lily cactus{{Cite web |url=https://worldofsucculents.com/echinopsis-subdenudata-easter-lily-cactus/ |title=Echinopsis subdenudata (Easter Lily Cactus) |date=2016-06-16 |website=World of Succulents |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-09}}) is a species of cactus. It has a globular shape, few spines, with large, white flowers attached to long, green tubes. It occurs in Bolivia, at altitudes of 600–1800 metres.{{Cite web|url=http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/17377/Echinopsis_subdenudata |title=Echinopsis subdenudata |last=|first=|date= |website=The Encyclopedia of Cacti|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615204228/http://www.llifle.com:80/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/17377/Echinopsis_subdenudata |archive-date=2016-06-15 |access-date=2019-11-09}} Under its synonym Echinopsis ancistrophora it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.{{cite web|title=AGM Plants March 2020 © RHS – ORNAMENTAL |date=March 2020 |website=rhs.org.uk |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf |publisher=The Royal Horticultural Society |accessdate=11 September 2020 }}
Description
The grey-green, single plant body, slightly depressed at the top, is spherical and reaches heights of 5 to 8 centimeters with diameters of 7 to 12 centimeters. It has 10 to 12 straight, very sharp ribs on which there are small, cream-colored, elongated-elliptical areoles that are 1.5 centimeters apart. The thorns are grayish brown and often hidden in the areole wool. The upright central spine is up to 2 millimeters long. The 3 to 7 thorns swollen at the base are up to 1.5 millimeters long.
The white to light pink, narrow funnel-shaped flowers, slightly curved above the ovary, are 17 to 20 centimeters long. They appear on the side near the top of the shoot and open at night. The pale green flower tube is up to 15 centimeters long and reaches a diameter of up to 7 centimeters. The elliptical ovary is 15 millimeters long and 8 to 10 millimeters wide. Its purple scales are pointed and have long white and black hairs. The 12 millimeter long style is white like the stamens.{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | last3=Anderson | first3=Edward F. | title=Das große Kakteen-Lexikon | publisher=Ulmer | publication-place=Stuttgart (Hohenheim) | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page=244}}{{cite book | last=Backeberg | first=Curt | title=Die Cactaceae : Handbuch der Kakteenkunde. 2. Cereoideae : (Hylocereeae - Cereeae [Austrocereinae]) | publisher=G. Fischer | publication-place=Stuttgart New York | date=January 1983 | isbn=3-437-30381-3 | language=de | page=1283}}
File:Echinopsis subdenudata203.jpg|White flower
File:Kaktus002.jpg|Long tube
File:Echinopsis subdenudata 3.jpg|Multiple flowers
File:Echinopsis subdenudata in Washington D.C.jpg|In botanical garden
Distribution
Lobivia ancistrophora is widespread near Angosto de Villamontes in the Entre Ríos Municipality in the Tarija Department in Bolivia at altitudes of 600 meters. The distribution area possibly extends as far as Paraguay.
Taxonomy
The first description as Echinopsis subdenudata was made in 1956 by Martín Cárdenas.{{cite web | title=Cactus and Succulent Journal May-June 1956: Vol 28 Iss 3 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | website=Internet Archive | date=2023-03-25 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_cactus-and-succulent-journal_may-june-1956_28_3/page/n2/mode/1up | access-date=2023-09-17}} The specific epithet subdenudata is derived from the Latin words sub for "under" and denudatus for "exposed" and refers to the insignificant thorns on the shoots. Boris O. Schlumpberger placed the species in the genus Lobivia in 2012.
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 28: 71 1956.
- Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires ser. 3, 4: 492. 1905
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Lobivia ancistrophora|Lobivia ancistrophora}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Lobivia ancistrophora|Lobivia ancistrophora}}
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