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Endangered
CITES App. II
Primary
Echinopsis scheeri
Cact. Hort. Dyck. (1849) [ed. 1849] 179 (1849), 1850; Lab. I. c. 289; Rumpler in Handb. Cacteenk. [Forster]. ed. 2. f. 79, 80
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Echinopsis scheeri
Author
Salm-Dyck
Chinese genus
仙人球属
Chinese name
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Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Note
Rumpler writes (1885)
Spines
Variable, all radial or sometime with one central.
Ribs
10-20 (or more), acute, separated by deep vertical grooves, crenate ( notched),obliquely interrupted at the areola.
Stem
Single or forming shoots, ellipsoidal, 5-6(-10) cm thick dark greyish-green, dark blue-green or tan.
Radial Spines
6, stronger and 4-5 thinner, acicular, slightly bent inward, about 26 mm long, at first dark purple and subsequently brownish or grey.