''Matucana haynii'' is a species of ''
Matucana
''Matucana'' is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), containing approximately 20 species of mostly globular plants. The genus is known only from Peru, mostly along the Marañón River.
Some species are endangered due to collection for the speci ...
'' found in
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
.
Description
''Matucana hayneii'' grows solitary or in sprouts with spherical to broadly cylindrical, with green shoots and reaches a height of up to with a diameter of . 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 and the 14 to 45 radial spines long.
The mostly crooked flowers are crimson to salmon pink to a little crimson. They are long and have a diameter of up to . The spherical to club-shaped, reddish green fruits are long and reach the same diameter.
Subspecies
Distribution
''Matucana haynei'' is widespread in Peru from the
La Libertad region to the
Arequipa
Arequipa (; Aymara language, Aymara and ), also known by its nicknames of ''Ciudad Blanca'' (Spanish for "White City") and ''León del Sur'' (Spanish for "South's Lion"), is a city in Peru and the capital of the eponymous Arequipa (province), ...
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
Christoph Friedrich Otto (4 December 1783 – 7 December 1856) was a German gardener and botanist.
He was born in Schneeberg, Saxony. From 1805 to 1843 he was inspector of the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Together with Albert Gottfried Dietric ...
in
Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck
Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert Ignatz Fürst und Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (4 September 1773 at Castle Dyck near Neuss – 21 March 1861 in Nice) was a German aristocrat, amateur botanist and owner of Castle Dyck.
Early life
...
's ''Cacteae in horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849''.
Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 – 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York (state), New York.
Early life
Britton was born on the 15 of January 1859 at New Dorp, Staten Island ...
and
Joseph Nelson Rose
Joseph Nelson Rose (January 11, 1862 – May 4, 1928) was an American botanist. He was born in Union County, Indiana. His father died serving during the Civil War when Joseph Rose was a young boy. He later graduated from high school in Liberty, ...
placed the species in the genus ''Matucana'' in 1922.
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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Flora of Peru
Cacti of South America
Endemic flora of Peru
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