Jonathan Juan Chancasana Villacorta, BY via GBIF · observed growing wild

Oroya peruviana (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 47 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Matucana peruviana is a species of cacti, originating from Peru.

Text from Wikipedia, “Matucana peruviana”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Oroya

Matucana is a genus of cacti, containing approximately 20 species of mostly globular plants. The genus is known only from Peru, mostly along the Marañón River.

Text from Wikipedia, “Matucana”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(K.Schum.) Britton & Rose

Native to

Peru

Wild records

51 in range· 5 open

Also known as Echinocactus peruvianus K.Schum.; Echinopsis urbis-regium Molinari & Mayta; Echinopsis urbis-regum Molinari & Mayta; Oroya baumannii Kní e; Oroya baumannii Kníze and 26 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Oroya, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 51 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativePeru

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-11.505, -75.824 · in the densest population, 51 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 51 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 50 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 51 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 51 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: Jonathan Juan Chancasana Villacorta, BY via GBIF · CC BY (3); Principe Mendoza Babilon, CC0 via GBIF (5).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Oroya peruviana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in high elevation tropical cactus

Jon E. Keeley, Sterling C. Keeley (1989) · Plant Cell & Environment

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