Echinopsis rivierei

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Echinopsis rivierei (Backeb.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley
I.O.S. Bull. 3(3): 97 (1974).
Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Echinopsis atacamensis (Phil.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley
I.O.S. Bull. 3(3): 94. 1974

Synonyms:

Echinopsis rivierei (Backeb.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley

Leucostele rivieri Backeb.
Trichocereus rivierei (Backeb.) Krainz

See all synonyms of Echinopsis atacamensis

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Echinopsis atacamensis group

Echinopsis atacamensis (Phil.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley: Tree-like columnar cactus up to 7 m high. Usually unbranched or few branched, cylindrical stems have many deep ribs with brown aureoles, each bearing 30 to 40 spines up to 10 cm long. Distribution: Chile.
Echinopsis atacamensis subs. pasacana (F.A.C.Weber ex Rümpler) G.Navarro: Often branched, attaining heights of 10 m or more. Distribution: Argentina and Bolivia.
Echinopsis atacamensis subs. pasacana f. brevispina hort.: Short spined, almost spineless form (hybrid?)
Echinopsis atacamensis subs. pasacana f. cristata hort.: Crested form.
Echinopsis rivierei (Backeb.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley: A tall columnar plant, rarely branching, up to 2 m high. Branches with many distinct ribs, areoles woolly with long white spines.

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Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Anderson, Edward F. (2001), "The Cactus Family" Pentland, Oregon: Timber Press, ISBN 978-0-88192-498-5
2) Curt Backeberg “Cactus Lexicon” Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1978
3) Keith Grantham, Paul Klaassen “The plantfinder's guide to cacti & other succulents” Timber Press, 18/mag/1999
4) Britton & Rose "The Cactaceae" 4: 273, 1923
5) Hiroshi Hirao “Colour encyclopaedia of cacti” Japan 1979 (Japanese language and script)
6) Willy Cullmann, Erich Götz (Dozent Dr.), Gerhard Gröner “The encyclopedia of cacti” Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1986
7) David Hunt, Nigel Taylor “The New Cactus Lexicon” DH Books, 2006 ISBN 0953813444, 9780953813445
8) Theodore H. Fleming, Alfonso Valiente Banuet “Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation” University of Arizona Press, 2002

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