Matucana haynii
{{Short description|Species of cactus}}
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| image =Matucana haynei (8956638749).jpg
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN2.3
| taxon = Matucana haynii
| authority = (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose 1922
| synonyms =
- Arequipa haynii {{Au|(Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Krainz 1963}}
- Borzicactus haynii {{Au|(Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Kimnach 1960}}
- Cereus haynii {{Au|(Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Croucher 1878}}
- Echinocactus haynii {{Au|Otto ex Salm-Dyck 1850}}
- Echinopsis haynii {{Au|(Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Molinari 2015}}
- Mammillaria haynii {{Au|(Otto ex Salm-Dyck) C.Ehrenb. 1844}}
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Matucana haynii is a species of Matucana found in Peru.{{cite web | title=Matucana haynii (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose | website=Plants of the World Online | url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:154802-2 | access-date=2023-08-24}}
Description
Matucana hayneii grows solitary or in sprouts with spherical to broadly cylindrical, with green shoots and reaches a height of up to {{cvt|30|cm}} with a diameter of {{cvt|20|cm}}. There are 14 to 30 tuberculate ribs. The variable white to light brown spines turn gray with age. The one to 20 central spines are {{cvt|1 to 7|cm}} and the 14 to 45 radial spines {{cvt|0.8 to 4|cm}} long.
The mostly crooked flowers are crimson to salmon pink to a little crimson. They are {{cvt|4 to 9|cm}} long and have a diameter of up to {{cvt|4|cm}}. The spherical to club-shaped, reddish green fruits are {{cvt|1 to 1.5|cm}} long and reach the same diameter.{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | title=Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page=418–419.}}
File:Matucana haynei Prague 2011 1.jpg| Plant
File:Matucana haynei RBGK.JPG| Flower
=Subspecies=
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| Image | Subspecies | Description | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Matucana haynii subsp. haynii | ||
| 120px | Matucana haynii subsp. herzogiana {{Au|(Backeb.) Mottram}} | Distinguished by smaller stem size, more or less curved setaceous radial spines | Cordillera Negra, Peru at 3200 meters |
| 120px | Matucana haynii subsp. hystrix {{Au|(Rauh & Backeb.) Mottram}} | Differs by having black central spines | Nazca to Lucamas, Peru at 3100-4000 meters |
| 120px | Matucana haynii subsp. myriacantha {{Au|(Vaupel) Mottram}} | Distinguished by pink and white flowers. | Cajamarca and Amazonas, at 200 meters |
Distribution
Matucana haynei is widespread in Peru from the La Libertad region to the Arequipa region on the western slope of the Andes at altitudes of 1500 to 4100 meters.
Taxonomy
The first description as Echinocactus haynii was made in 1850 by Christoph Friedrich Otto in Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck's Cacteae in horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849.{{cite web | title=Cacteæ in horto dyckensi cultæ anno 1849, secundum tribus et genera digestæ additis adnotationibus botanicis characteribusque specierum in enumeratione ... | website=HathiTrust | date=2022-10-19 | url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015061403484?urlappend=%3Bseq=181 | access-date=2023-08-24}} Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed the species in the genus Matucana in 1922.{{cite book | last=Britton | first=Nathaniel Lord | last2=Eaton | first2=Mary E. | last3=Rose | first3=J. N. | last4=Wood | first4=Helen Adelaide | title=The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family | publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington | publication-place=Washington | year=1919 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.46288 | page=}} Other nomenclature synonyms are Mammillaria haynei (Otto in Salm-Dyck) Ehrenb. (1844), Cereus haynei (Otto in Salm-Dyck) Croucher (1878), Borzicactus haynei (Otto in Salm-Dyck) Kimnach (1960), Arequipa haynei (Otto in Salm-Dyck) Krainz (1963) and Echinopsis haynei (Otto in Salm-Dyck) Molinari (2015)
References
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External links
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Matucana haynii|Matucana haynii}}
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Category:Cacti of South America