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Description: Small mat forming cactus
Stems: 5 -10 cm wide, basally branching.
Ribs: 12-20 sharp-edged with inclined protuberances.
Spines: Needle-like, more or less curved and interlaced with one
another, radials 4-15, centrals 1-3, to 6 cm long, gold-yellow to brown.
Flowers: From the basal portion of the stem, ca. 5 cm long and
4-8 cm broad, outer petals somewhat overlapping and violet-violet-pink
to purple sharpened, with yellowish throats, Stamens more or less to the
stylus bent. Red, yellow, white or intermediate colours are also common
in habitat and in cultivation, too.
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Cultivation: It is a summer-growing
species that offers no cultivation
difficulties. Water regularly in summer (but do not
overwater). It needs good drainage and very porous soil.
Keep rather
dry in winter.
Feed with a high potassium
fertilizer in summer.
It is quite frost-resistant if kept dry (hardy to -12° C).
In summer it needs bright exposure, full sun
or half shade.
Propagation:
Sow directly after last frost,
or by offsets.
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Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms an cultivars of Lobivia
(Echinopsis maximiliana).
(This taxon has lots of synonyms (like
most Lobivia) with several controversial varieties and subspecies):
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family) |
Lobivia corbula
(Herrera) Britton & Rose
Published in: The Cactaceae; descriptions and
illustrations of plants of the cactus family 3: 56, pl. 5, f. 2, 1922
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Currently accepted
Scientific name: Echinopsis maximiliana Heyder ex A. Dietrich 1846
Basyonym: Mammillaria
corbula Herrera
Published in: Revista Universitária [Cuzco] 8: 61.
1919. {Revista Univ. (Cuzco) ; BPH 796.03}
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Trichocereeae
Origin: Northern
Bolivia. The var. corbula (Herrera) is found near Cuzco and Ocongate.
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
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Synonyms:
- Lobivia corbula (Herrera) Britton
& Rose
- Lobivia maximiliana var. corbula
(Herrera) Rausch Lobivia 1975
- Maximiliana corbula Herrera, Rev.
Univ. Cuzco 1919/61
The colour of the flowers is variable (usually pink-violet but also red,
yellow, white or intermediate)
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Other synonyms ( of L. maximiliana):
- Echinopsis maximiliana Heyder ex
A. Dietrich 1846
- Lobivia maximiliana (Heyder ex A.
Dietrich) Backeberg 1937
- Lobivia caespitosa Britton & Rose
1922
- Echinopsis maximiliana subsp. caespitosa
(Britton & Rose) G. D. Rowley 1982
- Lobivia hermanniana Backeberg
1933
- Lobivia westii Hutchison 1954
- Echinopsis maximiliana subsp. westii
(Hutchison) G. D. Rowley 1982
- Lobivia charazanensis Cárdenas
1957
- Lobivia cariquinensis Cárdenas
1959
- Lobivia pseudocariquinensis
Cárdenas 1961
- Lobivia miniatiflora F. Ritter
1963
- Lobivia cruciaureispina Knize
1969
- Lobivia sicuaniensis Rausch 1971
- Lobivia intermedia Rausch 1971
- Echinopsis pentlandii var maximiliana
Lem. 1860
- Echinopsis tricolor A. G. Z. 1848
- Lobivia pentlandii var maximiliana
Backbg 1951
- Lobivia lauramarca Rauh a Backbg.,
Descr. Cact. Nov. 1956/28
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