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Description

Eriosyce heinrichiana is a species of plant in the genus Eriosyce of the cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet heinrichiana honors the German cacti lover Walter Heinrich. Eriosyce heinrichiana grows with a spherical or elongated plant body that is brownish to blackish green in color and reaches a diameter of 4 to 10 centimeters. The plants form a large taproot, which narrows like a neck at the transition to the plant body. The 14 to 22 ribs are divided into humps. The straight to curved spines are stiff and acicular, sometimes absent. They are divided into 1 to 4 central spines, which are 0.3 to 1.5 centimeters long, and 6 to 10 radial spines of up to 1.2 centimeters in length. The funnel flowers only appear on the young areoles and are creamy yellow to reddish in colour.They are 3 to 5 centimeters long and wide. The pericarpel and floral tube are covered with tufts of wool and bristles. The ovoid, thin-walled fruits are red and fleshy. They are up to 1.5 centimeters long and open at a basal pore. Eriosyce heinrichiana is distributed in north to central Chile near the coast and in the hills of the Coastal Cordillera. The range extends from Huasco to south of the Rio Limarí. The first description was as Horridocactus heinrichianus in 1942 by Curt Backeberg. Friedrich Rittercombined the species to Pyrrhocactus heinrichianus in 1959. The implementation in 1966 byJohn Donald DonaldotherGordon Douglas Rowleyas a variety of Neoporteria curvispina var. heinrichiana is referred to by Ritter as pure conjecture, since the species' habit is significantly different from the taxon curvispinusdeviates. Ritter himself states that he never found the plant on his extensive excursions in the field and suspects a hybrid from which Backeberg described the plant. This is conclusive insofar as the Backeberg only had a single plant when it was first described. In his work Cactus in South America, Volume 3, Ritter himself distances himself from his description from 1959 and describes the plant at that time as Pyrrhocactus chaniarensis F.Ritter spec. nov. and justifies this with numerous deviating characteristics to Horridocactus heinrichianus. The species name chaniarensis is considered asynonymfor Eriosyce heinrichiana. Another arrangement was made byRoger M. Ferrymanin 1991, when he elevated the variety to species rank ( Neoporteria heinrichiana ). in 1994, Fred Kattermannrecombined them to Eriosyce heinrichiana.