Cumulopuntia
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Cumulopuntia is a genus of plants from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Latin noun "cumulus" for heap and refers to the growth habit of the plants.
description
The species of the genus Cumulopuntia grow low and form densely branched cushions. The spherical, elliptical or egg-shaped shoot sections are plump and about 10 centimeters long. The tiny, 9.5 to 5 millimeter long leaves are mostly cylindrical and fall off early. The areoles have glochids , hair, and usually thorns .
The red or yellow flowers close at night. The elliptical, egg to spherical fruits are thick-walled and fleshy. They contain spherical to spherical egg-shaped to pear-shaped, beige to brown, sometimes wrinkled seeds 3 to 5.5 millimeters in length.
Systematics and distribution
The species of the genus Cumulopuntia are distributed in the south of Peru , in Chile , in Bolivia and in the north of Argentina .
The first description of the genus was made in 1980 by Friedrich Ritter . The type species of the genus is Opuntia ignescens . The genus includes the following species:
- Cumulopuntia boliviana (Salm-Dyck) F.Ritter
- Cumulopuntia chichensis (Cárdenas) EFAnderson
- Cumulopuntia corotilla (K.Schum. Ex Vaupel) EFAnderson
- Cumulopuntia crassicylindica (Rauh & Backeb.) F.Ritter ex Eggli
- Cumulopuntia dactylifera (Vaupel) EFAnderson
- Cumulopuntia frigida F. Knight
- Cumulopuntia fulvicoma (Rauh & Backeb.) EFAnderson
- Cumulopuntia galerasensis F. Knight
- Cumulopuntia hystrix F. Knight
- Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter
- Cumulopuntia mistiensis (Backeb.) EFAnderson
- Cumulopuntia pentlandii (Salm-Dyck) F.Ritter
- Cumulopuntia pyrrhacantha (K.Schum.) F.Ritter
- Cumulopuntia recurvata Gilmer & HPThomas
- Cumulopuntia rossiana (Heinrich & Backeb.) F.Ritter
- Cumulopuntia sphaerica (CFFörst.) EFAnderson
- Cumulopuntia ticnamarensis F. Knight
- Cumulopuntia tortispina F.Ritter
- Cumulopuntia tumida F. Knight
- Cumulopuntia unguispina (Backeb.) F.Ritter
A synonym of the genus is Sphaeropuntia Guiggi (2012).
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 161-166 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cacti in South America. Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 2: Argentina / Bolivia. Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1980, p. 399.
- ^ Edward F. Anderson : The great cactus lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 161-166 .
- ↑ Patricia Hernández-Ledesma, Walter G. Berendsohn, Thomas Borsch, Sabine Von Mering, Hossein Akhani, Salvador Arias, Idelfonso Castañeda-Noa, Urs Eggli, Roger Eriksson, Hilda Flores-Olvera, Susy Fuentes-Bazán, Gudrun Kadereit, Cornelia Klak , Nadja Korotkova, Reto Nyffeler, Gilberto Ocampo, Helga Ochoterena, Bengt Oxelman, Richard K. Rabeler, Adriana Sanchez, Boris O. Schlumpberger, Pertti Uotia: A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales . In: Willdenowia . Volume 45, number 3, 2015, pp. 281-383 ( doi: 10.3372 / wi.45.45301 ).
