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Drawing of a santaensis-type column: blue with a powdery bloom and short spines. Named on the drawing: farina, areole, rib, notch, pup.farinaareoleribnotchpup

A drawing of the kind of plant, not of any one plant.

Species

Santaensis

Where santaensis grows wild, and the name it was published under.

Where it grows wild

It reportedly grows wild along the Rio Santa valley, around Caraz and Huaraz in Ancash, Peru, which is where the name comes from.

The name

The International Plant Names Index records Trichocereus santaensis Rauh & Backeb. as a validly published name, first published in 1956. The same plant was reportedly also published as Echinopsis santaensis by Friedrich and Rowley in 1974.

A clone name is not proof of a species, and a photograph is a pointer rather than an answer.

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