Cumulopuntia fulvicoma

Cumulopuntia fulvicoma
Cumulopuntia fulvicoma
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Opuntioideae Tribe : Austrocylindropuntieae Genre : Cumulopuntia Type : Cumulopuntia fulvicoma
Scientific name
Cumulopuntia fulvicoma
( Rauh & Backeb. ) EFAnderson

Cumulopuntia fulvicoma is a species of plant in the genus Cumulopuntia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet fulvicoma means '(lat. Fulvicomus) red-yellow, orange-haired, woolly'.

description

Cumulopuntia fulvicoma forms cushions. The almost spherical to egg-shaped, indistinctly humped shoot sections are up to 3.5 centimeters long. The approximately 20 areoles are located on the upper part of the shoot sections. The three to five thorns arise only from the uppermost areoles. They are erect, uneven, leather-brown and up to 2 inches long.

The flowers are yellow on the inside and reddish on the outside. The scar lobes are exceptionally short. The edge of the pericarpel is covered with up to 2 centimeters long, stiff thorns.

Distribution and systematics

Cumulopuntia fulvicoma is common in the Ayacucho region of Peru .

It was first described as Tephrocactus fulvicomus in 1956 by Werner Rauh and Curt Backeberg . Edward Frederick Anderson placed the species in the genus Cumulopuntia in 1999 . A nomenclatory synonym is Opuntia fulvicoma (Rauh & Backeb.) GDRowley (1958).

proof

literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 162 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Descriptiones Cactearum Novarum . 1956, p. 9.
2. ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 71, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1999, p. 324.

Web links

Commons : Cumulopuntia fulvicoma  - album with pictures, videos and audio files