Cumulopuntia dactylifera
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Cumulopuntia dactylifera is a species of plant in the genus Cumulopuntia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet dactylifera means '(lat. Dactylifer) carrying dates'.
description
Cumulopuntia dactylifera forms dense pads. The egg-shaped to elongated, often glaucous and brick-like humped shoot sections are 4 to 5 centimeters or more long. The twelve to 14 areoles are located on the upper part of the shoot sections. The up to seven thorns , which are occasionally missing, arise only from the uppermost areoles. They are erect, reddish brown and up to 3.5 inches long.
The yellow flowers reach lengths of up to 3 centimeters. The elongated, date-shaped fruits are bare and up to 5 centimeters long.
Distribution and systematics
Cumulopuntia dactylifera is widespread in the Peruvian region of Puno and in Bolivia in the La Paz department at altitudes of 3400 to 3800 meters in the Puna vegetation.
It was first described as Opuntia dactylifera in 1913 by Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel . Edward Frederick Anderson placed the species in the genus Cumulopuntia in 1999 .
Nomenclatory synonyms are Tephrocactus dactylifer (Vaupel) Backeb. (1958), Cumulopuntia pentlandii var. Dactylifera (Vaupel) F. Ritter (1980) and Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. dactylifera (Vaupel) DRHunt (2002).
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . With a foreword by Wilhelm Barthlott and an article by Roger Brown on cactus cultivation and care. Translated from English, supplemented and revised by Urs Eggli. Ulmer , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 162 (English: The cactus family . Portland 2004. Translated by Urs Eggli ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 50, number 2–3, Beiblatt 111, Leipzig 1913, pp. 29-30. (on-line).
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 71, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1999, p. 324.