Matucana weberbaueri
| Matucana weberbaueri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Genus: | Matucana |
| Species: | M. weberbaueri
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| Binomial name | |
| Matucana weberbaueri (Vaupel) Backeb. 1939
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Matucana weberbaueri is a species of Matucana found in Peru.[2]
Description
[edit]Matucana weberbaueri usually grows solitary with spherical to somewhat cylindrical, green shoots and reaches a height of up to 20 cm (7.9 in) with a diameter of 12 cm (4.7 in). There are 18 to 30 transversely furrowed ribs divided into humps. The 25 to 30 straight, needle-like, gold-colored to dark brown spines cannot be differentiated into central and radial spines. They are 1 to 5 cm (0.39 to 1.97 in) long.
The straight to slightly crooked, lemon yellow to orange flowers are up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long and have a diameter of 3 cm (1.2 in). The egg-shaped, red and green fruits reach a diameter of 8 mm (0.31 in).[3]
Distribution
[edit]It is endemic to the south of the department of Amazonas at Otuzco on the west bank of the Río Marañón at Balsas at an altitude of 2000 to 2100 meters.
Taxonomy
[edit]The first description as Echinocactus weberbaueri was in 1913 by Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel.[4] Curt Backeberg placed the species in the genus Matucana in 1939.[5] Synonyms are Submatucana weberbaueri (Vaupel) hort. and Borzicactus weberbaueri (Vaupel) Donald (1971).
References
[edit]- ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ "Matucana weberbaueri (Vaupel) Backeb". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). p. 421. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
- ^ Engler, Adolf (1914). "Botanische Jahrbücher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie". Schweizerbart [etc.] ISSN 0006-8152. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ "Au Cactus Francophone :". Au Cactus Francophone (in French). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
External links
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Media related to Matucana weberbaueri at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Matucana weberbaueri at Wikispecies
