Accession Data

Oreocereus celsianus

Common Name: Old Man of the Andes

Family: Cactaceae

Country of Origin: Bolivia, Peru and northern Argentina

Accession Data

Accession #: 200600024

Accession Date: 2006-04-04 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2215

Quantity: 1

Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College

Provenance: Smith# 159-00
seed wild collected Argentina source# 516-99-107
Argentina: Jujuy, Yavi: 26km E of La Quiaca: Ruta Prov. 5 toward Sanata Victoria (10km E of Yavi): 3600m. Levenberger and Eggli 4560

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Cactaceae

SubFamily: Cactoideae

Tribe: Cereeae

SubTribe: Trichocereinae

References

  1. Anderson, E.F., The Cactus Family, Timber Press 2001

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Oreocereus celsianus