Echinopsis yuquina

Echinopsis yuquina, synonym Lobivia rauschii, is a species of Echinopsis found in Bolivia.^[2][3]

Echinopsis yuquina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Subfamily:	Cactoideae
Genus:	Echinopsis
Species:	E. yuquina
Binomial name
Echinopsis yuquina D.R.Hunt[1]
Synonyms[2]
Lobivia rauschii Zecher

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1974 as Lobivia rauschii. When David R. Hunt moved it to the genus Echinopsis in 1991, the name Echinopsis rauschii was already in use for a different species described in 1974, so the replacement name Echinopsis yuquina was needed.^[1]