Copiapoa
| Copiapoa | |
|---|---|
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| Copiapoa humilis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Genus: | Copiapoa Britton & Rose |
Copiapoa is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceaea, from the dry coastal deserts, particularly the Atacama Desert, of northern Chile. It comprises 32 morphologically defined species and 5 heterotypic subspecies [1]. These species vary in form from spherical to slightly columnar and in color from a brownish to blue-green body. They have warty ribs and spiny areoles, and they usually produce tubular yellow flowers which grow from woolly crowns in summer.[2]
Taxonomy
Pilocopiapoa F.Ritter has been brought into synonymy with this genus. Some authorities also include here the genus Blossfeldia.
Species
Copiapoa cinerea
- Copiapoa australis
- Copiapoa laui
Clade I: Pilocopiapoa
- Copiapoa solaris
- Copiapoa solaris var. ferox
Copiapoa humilis var. tenuissima
Clade II: Mammillopoa
- Copiapoa humilis (Humildito)
- Copiapoa tenuissima
- Copiapoa tocopillana (Tocopillano)
- Copiapoa humilis variispinata
Clade IIIa: Cinerei
- Copiapoa gigantea
- Copiapoa cinerea x gigantea
- Copiapoa krainziana (Chascón)
- Copiapoa cinerea (Copiapoa de Philippi)
- Copiapoa columna alba
Clade IIIb: Copiapoa
- Copiapoa longispina
- Copiapoa megarhiza
- Copiapoa conglomerata
- Copiapoa longistaminea
- Copiapoa rupestris
- Copiapoa aphanes
- Copiapoa desertorum
- Copiapoa taltalensis (Quisco del Desierto)
- Copiapoa serpentisulcata
- Copiapoa decorticans
- Copiapoa cinerascens
- Copiapoa mollicula (Bajotierra)
- Copiapoa angustifolia
- Copiapoa esmeraldana
- Copiapoa grandiflora
- Copiapoa montana
- Copiapoa calderana
- Copiapoa marginata
- Copiapoa hypogaea
- Copiapoa atacamensis
- Copiapoa leonensis
- Copiapoa parvula
Clade IV: Echinopoa
- Copiapoa coquimbana (Coquimbano)
- Copiapoa echinoides
- Copiapoa echinoides var. cuprea
- Copiapoa echinoides var. dura
- Copiapoa fiedleriana
- Copiapoa dealbata
See also
- Copiapó (the largest city of the Atacama region)
- Pan de Azúcar National Park
References
- ↑ Larridon I., Walter H.E., et al. (2015). An integrative approach to understanding the evolution and diversity of Copiapoa (Cactaceae), a threatened endemic Chilean genus from the Atacama Desert. American Journal of Botany 102, 1506-1520.
- ↑ Brickell, Christopher, ed. (2008). The Royal Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 302. ISBN 9781405332965.
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