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Original
Publication
Copiapoa ahremephiana N.P.Taylor & G.J.Charles
Syst. Init.
13: 15. 2002 [Apr 2002]
Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives: Bulletin of the International Cactaceae
Systematics Group. England
Original Description
'Full
descriptions, illustrations and commentary for two new species from the Quebrada
Botija will be published in a forthcoming issue of
the British Cactus &
Succulent Journal. Names for the species are validated below, with grateful
thanks to Mrs Christine Barker (Herbarium, K) for checking the Latin diagnoses:
14001
Copiapoa
ahremephiana
N.P. Taylor & G. Charles species nova fortasse C. cinereae affinis
sed habitu dense caespitoso et caulibus 3-4-plo
minoribus pulvinos hemisphaericos formantibus differt. Holotypus: Chile,
Antofagasta, c. 70 km N of Paposo, Quebrada Botija, Caleta Botija, Ferryman
RMF 53 (K, in spirit).'
note: the promised article was published in BCSJ 22 (1) 23-27
Distribution (Map)
References in Literature
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The
Chileans: 16(53):86 |
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Finding which sort of Copiapoa?
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The
Chileans: 16(53);91 |
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Copiapoa paposoensis
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The
Chileans: 17(55):10a
Copiapoa variispinata |
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Roger Ferryman suggested that the Copiapoa sp.,
now known as C. ahremephiana, may be Ritter's
Copiapoa rarissima. |
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The
Chileans: 17(55):10b |
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The Quebrada Botija |
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Schulz, R & Kapitany, A,
(1996) Copiapoa in their Environment |
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The authors were
at the time of the opinion that C. ahremphinana was in fact Ritter's C.
varispinata |
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| Charles, G (1998)
Copiapoa, Cactus File Handbook 4:6 |
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Reports that the plant in
circulation under field collection number RMF 53 needs to be described as a
new species. |
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| Doni C
(2001) Quebrada Botija, Cactus & Co V (4) 211-218 |
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| Rebmann,
N (2002) Copiapoa sp. nova Botija Valley, Succulenta 25(2):30-31 |
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as C. ahremephiana |
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| Charles, G
(2004) The identification of the
Copiapoa species from Quebrada Botija, Chile BCSJ 22 (1) 23-27 |
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as C. ahremephiana |
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Hunt D. (Ed.)
(2006)
The New Cactus Lexicon |
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as the most northern member of the cinerea group. |
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Schulz, R
(2006)
Copiapoa 2006 |
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as C. ahremephiana |
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PK Comments
The official naming of the species at
the mouth of the Botija Valley was very welcome. Our impressions on visiting the
habitat on two occasions in 2001 was of a plant that, in habitat, was unlike any
that we had seen before (or afterwards). However, I was very surprised to see
plants raised in the UK from habitat seed - their appearance in cultivation is so different from the plants in habitat, that they
may as well be different species - which, uncomfortably, brings us back to
possible links with C. varispinata.
Copiapoathons: We saw Copiapoa ahremephiana
at Caleta Botija and in the Quebrada Botija, recorded at:
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