Cumulopuntia frigida
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Cumulopuntia frigida is a species of plant in the genus Cumulopuntia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet frigida means '(lat. Frigidus) cold, cool'.
description
Cumulopuntia frigida forms very dense, medium-sized pads. The short, cylindrical, somewhat blunt shoot sections are up to 3 centimeters long. There are ten to 15 straight, reddish to white, shiny, spreading to crookedly upright thorns that are up to 4.5 centimeters long.
The flowers are yellow to orange in color. The up to 4.5 centimeters long fruits are bare in the lower part. Their edge is covered with crowded areoles that have bristles up to 3 centimeters long.
Distribution and systematics
Cumulopuntia frigida is widespread in Bolivia on the watershed between the Oruro and Potosí departments in the Puna above 4000 meters.
It was first described in 1980 by Friedrich Ritter . A nomenclature synonym is Opuntia frigida (F.Ritter) G.Navarro (1996).
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 162 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cacti in South America. Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 2: Argentina / Bolivia. Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1980, pp. 493–494.
