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Copiapoa echinata var. borealis F.Ritter
1959
Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Copiapoa megarhiza Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 89. 1922 [12 Oct 1922] Britton & Rose

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Copiapoa megarhiza Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 89. 1922 [12 Oct 1922]
Synonymy: 4 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Copiapoa megarhiza var. microrhiza F.Ritter
Kakteen Südamerika 3: 1081 (1980)

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Copiapoa megarhiza subs. parvula Mächler & Helmut Walter
Kakteen Sukk. 56(11): 297 (295-299; figs. 1, 3, 6). 2005 [Nov 2005]

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Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Copiapoa fiedleriana group

  • Copiapoa echinata F.Ritter: ( = fiedleriana) Plant noticeable for its strongly tuberculate ribs and pruinose epidermis, the large tap-root suggest it is related with Copiapoa megarhiza.
  • Copiapoa echinata var. borealis F.Ritter: ( = fiedleriana) Plants from the northern areal.
  • Copiapoa echinata var. pulla F.Ritter: ( = fiedleriana) Distingushed for the brown coloured epidermis.
  • Copiapoa fiedleriana (K.Schum.) Backeb. in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth: Plants solitary or branched with large, fleshy roots. Stems globose, gray-green 5-8 cm tallwith tuberculate ribs. It has 4-8 radial spines blackish or greyish-brown up to 3 cm long. Central spines usually absent.
  • Copiapoa intermedia F.Ritter ex Backeb.: ( = fiedleriana )
  • Copiapoa totoralensis F.Ritter: (same as Copiapoa echinata ?)

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