Oroya
{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{For|a city in Peru|La Oroya}}
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|type_species =Oroya peruviana
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Oroya is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), native to Peru. The genus is widespread in the Peruvian Andes.
Description
Oroya species are solitary, but sometimes multi-shooted with a globular form and many ribs with usually-dense pectinate spines and a tuberous root.. Usually up to {{cvt|32|cm|in}} high, and {{cvt|22|cm|in|0}} in diameter. Their flat-spherical or pressed spherical to short-cylindrical shoots have many ribs, which sometimes form low warts. Long, narrow areoles sit on them from which 1 to 6 central spines and several comb-shaped marginal spines arise.{{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 | pages=485–486}}
Small flowers (up to 1 cm in diameter) grow along a ring near the top of the plant. The flowers are yellow, but their stems are often pink or red.
Taxonomy
The first plants were collected by August Weberbauer near La Oroya. Karl Moritz Schumann described the species in 1903 as Echinocactus peruvianus. In their first description of the genus in 1922, Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed it as the only species in their newly created genus Oroya.{{cite book | last1=Britton | first1=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=}} The name comes from the Peruvian town of La Oroya where the first plants were discovered.{{cite web | url=http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Oroya | title=On-line Guide to the positive identification of Members of the Cactus Family }}
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{{As of|2023|October}}, Plants of the World Online accepted two species:{{cite web | title=Oroya Britton & Rose — Plants of the World Online | website=Plants of the World Online | url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5465-1 | access-date=2023-10-16}}
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| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|
| 120px | Oroya borchersii (Boed.) Backeb. | Peru (Ancash) |
| 120px | Oroya peruviana (K. Schum.) Britton & Rose | Peru (Cuzco, Junin) |
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Oroya|Oroya}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Oroya|Oroya}}
- [http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Oroya Cactiguide.com: photos of Oroya]
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Category:Cacti of South America