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Drawing of a spachianus-type column: a many-ribbed column with stiff, sharp spines. Named on the drawing: areole, rib, spines, pup.areoleribspinespup

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

Species

Spachianus

What a spachianus looks like, a name published over a century ago, and where it has been collected.

What it looks like

It is reportedly an upright column that branches freely at the base, the branches 60 to 90 centimeters (2 to 3 feet) high and five to six centimeters (about 2 inches) thick, with ten to fifteen rounded ribs and stiff, sharp spines that start amber-yellow to brown and turn gray with age.

The name

The International Plant Names Index records Trichocereus spachianus Riccob. as a validly published name, first published in 1909.

Where it grows wild

It has reportedly been collected in the wild in Bolivia.

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

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