Matucana weberbaueri

Matucana weberbaueri is a species of Matucana found in Peru.[2]

Matucana weberbaueri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Matucana
Species:
M. weberbaueri
Binomial name
Matucana weberbaueri
(Vaupel) Backeb. 1939

Description

Matucana weberbaueri usually grows individually with spherical to somewhat cylindrical, green shoots and reaches a height of up to 20 centimeters with a diameter of 12 centimeters. 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 centimeters long.

The straight to slightly crooked, lemon yellow to orange flowers are up to 6 centimeters long and have a diameter of 3 centimeters. The egg-shaped, red and green fruits reach a diameter of 8 millimeters.[3]

Distribution

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

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. (no year, nom. inval. ICBN article 29.1) and Borzicactus weberbaueri (Vaupel) Donald (1971).

References
  1. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  2. "Matucana weberbaueri (Vaupel) Backeb". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  3. Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). p. 421. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
  4. Engler, Adolf (1914). "Botanische Jahrbücher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie". Schweizerbart [etc.] ISSN 0006-8152. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  5. "Au Cactus Francophone :". Au Cactus Francophone (in French). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
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