Eriosyce napina

Description

Eriosyce napina is a species in the genus Eriosyce of the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet napina means (latin napinus) beet-like '. Eriosyce napina grows single with depressed globose to slightly elongated dark green to green-brown shoots and reaches diameters of 2 to 4 centimeters. The vertex is bald or something wanted. The root is a large, bulbous taproot , which is set off from the shoot with a narrow neck. The ribs are divided into low cusps. The areoles on it are slightly sunken. There are few to numerous, horn-colored to black thorns present, which rest on the drive surface or radiate something. They are 2 to 5 millimeters long. A single thorn is a bit more central. The funnel-shaped flowers are pale yellow to sometimes bright reddish and appear from young areoles. Their pericarpell and the flower tube are covered with whitish wool and bristles. The elongated fruits open with a basal pore. Eriosyce napina is distributed in the south of the Chilean region of Atacama in the valley of the Rio Huasco between Vallenar and Huasco on Alluvialablagerungen . The first description as Echinocactus napinus was made in 1872 by Rudolph Amandus Philippi.