Cumulopuntia mistiensis

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

Cumulopuntia mistiensis is a species of plant in the genus Cumulopuntia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet mistiensis refers to the area of the El Misti volcanoin the northeast of the Peruvian region of Arequipa.

description

Cumulopuntia fulvicoma grows semi-creeping. The egg-shaped to elongated, olive-green shoot sections are up to 3 centimeters or more long. In the youth stage they are slightly humped. Thorns are usually absent, only rarely is a single, bristle-like thorn up to 4 millimeters long present.

Distribution and systematics

Cumulopuntia mistiensis is widespread in the Peruvian region of Arequipa in the high Andes at altitudes of about 3500 meters.

It was first described as Tephrocactus mistiensis in 1936 by Curt Backeberg . Edward Frederick Anderson placed the species in the genus Cumulopuntia in 1999 . A nomenclature synonym is Opuntia mistiensis (Backeb.) GDRowley (1958).

Cumulopuntia mistiensis is not well known.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 163 .

Individual evidence

↑ Cactus ABC . 1936, pp. 110, 410.
↑ Edward F. Anderson: Some nomenclatural changes in the Cactaceae, subfamily Opuntioideae . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 71, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1999, p. 324.

[1] Cactus ABC . 1936, pp. 110, 410.

[2] Edward F. Anderson: Some nomenclatural changes in the Cactaceae, subfamily Opuntioideae . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 71, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1999, p. 324.