{{Short description|Species of plant in the genus Matucana}} {{Speciesbox |image=Matucana intertexta 1.jpg | status = DD | status_system = IUCN2.3 | status_ref =<ref name="Assessment) 2011 p. ">{{cite journal | last=Assessment) | first=Jose Roque (Global Cactus | title=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | journal=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | date=2011-05-05 | url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/152325/121531411 | access-date=2023-08-26 | page=}}</ref> |image_caption= |genus=Matucana |species=intertexta |authority=[[F.Ritter]]<ref>Taxon 12: 125 (1963)</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name="154809-2" /> |synonyms={{collapsible list| *''Borzicactus intertextus'' <small>(F.Ritter) Donald</small> *''Borzicactus intertextus'' var. ''celendinensis'' <small>(F.Ritter) Donald</small> *''Matucana celendinensis'' <small>F.Ritter</small> *''Matucana intertexta'' var. ''celendinensis'' <small>(F.Ritter) Bregman, Meerst., Melis & A.B.Pullen</small> *''Submatucana intertexta'' <small>(F.Ritter) Backeb.</small> }}}}
'''''Matucana intertexta''''' is a species of [[cactus]] in the genus ''[[Matucana]]'', native to Peru.<ref name="154809-2" >{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:154809-2 |title=''Matucana intertexta'' F.Ritter |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=5 November 2020 }}</ref> It has gained the [[Royal Horticultural Society]]'s [[Award of Garden Merit]].<ref>{{cite web |title=''Matucana intertexta'' |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/10923/i-Matucana-intertexta-i/Details |publisher=The Royal Horticultural Society |accessdate=5 November 2020 }}</ref> ==Description== ''Matucana intertexta'' usually grows solitary with globular to broadly cylindrical, green shoots and reaches heights of growth of up to {{cvt|30|cm}} with a diameter of {{cvt|7 to 18|cm}}. There are 14 - 25 blunt, flattened tubercles ribs present. The white, straight or slightly curved, protruding to slightly splaying spines darken with age. There are initially up to 20 spines, two to five central spines with a length of {{cvt|2 to 4|cm}} and ten to 25 radial spines with a length of {{cvt|0.7 to 2|cm}}.
The lopsided, light orange to vermilion and scarlet flowers are {{cvt|7 to 10.5|cm}} long and have a diameter of {{cvt|3.5 to 8|cm}}. Their bracts are edged with purple. The spherical, green fruits reach a diameter of {{cvt|1 to 1.8|cm}}.<ref name="Anderson Eggli 2005 p. 419.">{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | title=Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page=419}}</ref>
==Subspecies== The following subspecies are currently accepted:<ref name="154809-2" /> *''Matucana intertexta'' subsp. ''intertexta'' *''Matucana intertexta'' subsp. ''jankei'' <small>Cieza & Pino</small> ==Distribution== ''Matucana intertexta'' is distributed in the Peruvian region of [[Cajamarca]] at altitudes of 1500 to 2300 meters. ==Taxonomy== The first description was in 1963 by [[Friedrich Ritter]].<ref name="Ritter 1963 pp. 123–125">{{cite journal | last=Ritter | first=F. | title=Diagnosen von neuen Kakteen (Continued) | journal=Taxon | publisher=International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) | volume=12 | issue=3 | year=1963 | issn=00400262 | jstor=1217203 | pages=123–125 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1217203 | access-date=2023-08-26}}</ref> [[Synonym (taxonomy)|Nomenclature synonyms]] are ''Submatucana intertexta'' (F.Ritter) Backeb. (1963) and ''Borzicactus intertextus'' (F.Ritter) Donald (1971).
==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Matucana intertexta|''Matucana intertexta''}} *{{Wikispecies-inline|Matucana intertexta|''Matucana intertexta''}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q310156}}
[[Category:Matucana|intertexta]] [[Category:Endemic flora of Peru]] [[Category:Plants described in 1963]]