| 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
| 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 Copiapoaspecies 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 withC. varispinata.
Copiapoathons: We saw Copiapoa ahremephiana at Caleta Botija and at the mouth of the Quebrada Botija, recorded at:
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| S0050 |
| S0066 |
| S0139 |
| S0140 |
| S0142 |
| S0284 |
| S0665 |
| S1949 |
| S2842 |
| S2928 |
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