Copiapoa is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, from the dry coastal deserts, particularly the Atacama Desert, of northern Chile. It comprises 32 morphologically defined species and 5 heterotypic subspecies.[1] These species vary in form from spherical to slightly columnar and in color from a brownish to blue-green body. They have warty ribs and spiny areoles, and they usually produce tubular yellow flowers which grow from woolly crowns in summer.[2]
Taxonomy
Pilocopiapoa F.Ritter has been brought into synonymy with this genus. Some authorities also include here the genus Blossfeldia.
Species
Copiapoa cinerea
- Copiapoa australis
- Copiapoa laui
Clade I: Pilocopiapoa
- Copiapoa solaris
- Copiapoa solaris var. ferox
Copiapoa humilis var. tenuissima
Clade II: Mammillopoa
- Copiapoa humilis (Humildito)
- Copiapoa tenuissima
- Copiapoa tocopillana (Tocopillano)
- Copiapoa humilis variispinata
Clade IIIa: Cinerei
- Copiapoa gigantea
- Copiapoa cinerea × gigantea
- Copiapoa krainziana (Chascón)
- Copiapoa cinerea (Copiapoa de Philippi)
- Copiapoa columna alba
Clade IIIb: Copiapoa
- Copiapoa longispina
- Copiapoa megarhiza
- Copiapoa conglomerata
- Copiapoa longistaminea
- Copiapoa rupestris
- Copiapoa aphanes
- Copiapoa desertorum
- Copiapoa taltalensis (Quisco del desierto)
- Copiapoa serpentisulcata
- Copiapoa decorticans
- Copiapoa cinerascens
- Copiapoa mollicula (Bajotierra)
- Copiapoa angustifolia
- Copiapoa esmeraldana
- Copiapoa grandiflora
- Copiapoa montana
- Copiapoa calderana
- Copiapoa marginata
- Copiapoa hypogaea
- Copiapoa atacamensis
- Copiapoa leonensis
- Copiapoa parvula
Clade IV: Echinopoa
- Copiapoa coquimbana (Coquimbano)
- Copiapoa echinoides
- Copiapoa echinoides var. cuprea
- Copiapoa echinoides var. dura
- Copiapoa fiedleriana
- Copiapoa dealbata
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