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Original Description
Copiapoa longistaminea Ritter 1963, Taxon
12(1):29
SynonymsCopiapoa microsperma Ritter nom. nud., "Cactus“
Nr. 66, März 1960
Copiapoa
longistaminea Ritter, sp. nova, a C. cinerea (Phil.) Br. & R. (Cact.
3: 86, 1922) recedit: corpore 30-50 cm alto, 7-11 (-15) cm diam.,
griseo-viridi, raro albo, radice rapacea brevissima; costis 15-21, areolis
3-6 mm remotis, aurantiaco-luteis; spinis atrobadiis vel fere nigris,
radialibus 4-6, semipatentibus, 1-3 cm longis, centralibus 0-1; floribus
22-25 mm longis; tepalis ± 10 mm longis, 4-5 mm latis, pallide luteis, apice
saepe brunneis; staminibus ± 15 mm longis; stylo ± 15 mm longo; fructu
pallide viridi; seminihus ± 1,2 mm longis, 0,8 mm latis, laete viridibus,
laevibus.
Habitat:
in der Nähe von Esmeralda, NordChile. Gesammelt als FR 531.
References in Literature
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Ritter F. 1980, Kakteen in Südamerika
(3):1096 |
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Ritter considers this to be
related to C. cinerea and C. gigantea. |
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Taylor N P 1981,
A commentary on
Copiapoa, The Cactus and Succulent Journal of
Great Britain, 43(2/3): 49-60
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Referred to C. cinerea var.
cinerea.
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Butcher D 1982, The Genus
Copiapoa, Calandrinia II
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Butcher provides an English
description. |
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Hoffmann A. E. 1989, Cactaceas
en la flora silvestre de Chile: 122 |
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Adriana Hoffmann retains C.
longistaminea as a good species. |
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Eggli, Schick & Leuenburger,
1995, Englera 16: 306
Copiapoa longistaminea
FR531
Sample at the Utrecht Herbarium
Image by Paul Klaassen
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Ritter
531: Copiapoa longistaminea F. Ritter
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Taxon 12(1): 31-32, 1963.
Typus (T): Ritter 531 (U i 17779B, SGO, ZSS
[seeds only]) (Holotype cited for U l.c., 28.).
loc. 1:
Chile: near Esmeralda
U 117779B HOLO – (corp), ar, sp (Labelled as “Holotypus” by Ritter.)
ZSS S10314 Type number
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sem (Leg. F. Ritter 1957.)
loc.2:
Chile: ,,Esmeralda Nr. 1“.
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/2. /1956.
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Collection date according to
original Ritter seed sample at ZSS.
SGO 124894 ISO
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rad, corp, ar, sp
[p 307]
ZSS SR13473 ISO- sem
Ritter
532: Copiapoa longistaminea F. Ritter
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Taxon 12(1): 3 1-32, 1963.
Typus (T): Ritter
531 (U 117779B, SGO, ZSS [seeds only]) (Holotype cited for U l.c., 28.).
loc. 1:
Chile: "Esmeralda, Nr. 6“.
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/2. /1956.
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Collection date according to
original Ritter seed sample at ZSS.
SGO 124895
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rad, corp, ar, sp
ZSS SR13474 - sem (,,ist gleich FR 531“ =equals FR 531;
FR531 is the
type number of Copiapoa longistaminea Label originally numbered FR
532a, a number not recorded in the field-number list in KS 4.)
loc. 2:
Chile: "Esmeralda,
Küste“ =
Esmeralda, coast.
The original
label has the number as "FR 532 (x 531 ?"
and comments "Cop. microsperma,
Einschlag von Cop. longistaminea (?)"
=
C. microsperma,
introgression from C. longistaminea. C. microsperma is a nude name of
Ritter for C. longistaminea.
SGO 124896
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rad, corp. ar, sp |
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Schulz R & Kapitany A. , 1996,
Copiapoa in their Environment |
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The authors concentrate on the
environmental issues rather than the taxonomy and include it in the C.
cinerea complex.
Distribution: Las Lomitas to Cifuncho |
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Charles G. J. , 1998,
Copiapoa
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Charles (1998) as C. cinerea var. longistaminea
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Hunt D.
(Ed.) 2002, Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives 13:12 |
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Reinstated as a species. |
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Hoffmann A.E. & Walter H. 2004
Cactaceas en la flora silvestre
de Chile (2nd Ed.): 154 |
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as Copiapoa longistaminea
Ritter |
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Distribution
PK Comments
We found C. longistaminea
growing alongside C. grandiflora, C. laui and, (what we called at
the time) C. esmeraldana in the Guanillos Valley and around Esmeralda. At
the mouth of the Valley, it is the Copiapoa that grows closest to the Ocean
shore. Further inland, near 'Secret Valley', it grows alongside C. cinerea
subsp. columna-alba.
There is a track that runs from
Esmeralda to Cifuncho. From it, there are a number of valleys that run west of
the track towards the Pacific Ocean (Quebrada Guanillos, Quebrada Tigrillo,
Quebrada La Madera, Quebrada de Leoncites etc) where the dominant Copiapoa
between the track and the Ocean is C. grandiflora in the south, and C.
cinerea subsp. columna-alba further north, but where at the coast it
is replaced by forms of C. longistaminea (giving rise to KK's C.
tigrillensis n.n.).
In 'Copiapoa in their
Environment' Schulz & Kapitany report a plant that they call Copiapoa sp.
'Cifuncho' that grows at the coast to the south of Cifuncho. We take this to be
the most northern occurrence of C. longistaminea.
In some of these smaller side
valleys, we found plants that looked more like forms of C. taltalensis
(C. rupestris) than C. longistaminea This coastal strip has been
earmarked for more detailed investigations on a future trip.
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