Maihuenia patagonica

Maihuenia patagonica
	Maihuenia patagonica
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Maihuenioideae
Genre :	Maihuenia
Type :	Maihuenia patagonica
Scientific name
	Maihuenia patagonica
	( Phil. ) Britton & Rose

Maihuenia patagonica is a species of plant in the genus Maihuenia from the cactus family(Cactaceae). Spanish common names are "Chupa Sangre", "Siempre Verde", and "Yerba del Guanaco".

description

Maihuenia patagonica forms cushions up to 40 centimeters high and 3 meters in diameter. The taproot is up to 40 centimeters long. The elongated shoots are not segmented and are loosely arranged. They are up to 40 centimeters long and 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter. There are numerous button-like to cylindrical, spur-like short shoots. The numerous green leaves are conical, egg-shaped or even linear and in cross-section circular to elliptical. They are 2 to 6 millimeters long and 1.5 to 3 millimeters in diameter. The single, stiff central spine is 3 to 7.5 inches long. The 2 radial spines (rarely only one or completely absent) are sometimes inconspicuous, sometimes lie on the shoot surface and are 2 to 8 millimeters long.

The white flowers usually appear terminally on short shoots. The elongated to almost spherical to club-shaped fruits are 2 to 4 centimeters long.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 22.

Systematics and distribution

Maihuenia patagonica is common in southern Argentina at altitudes of up to 500 meters. The first description as Opuntia patagonica was published in 1863 by Rudolph Amandus Philippi . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put them in the genus Maihuenia in 1919 .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 360-361 .

Individual evidence

^ Maihuenia patagonica at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
↑ Anales de la Universidad de Chile . Volume 23, 1863, p. 464.
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape I . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1919, p. 41 .

Web links

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[IPCN-1] Maihuenia patagonica at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

[2] Anales de la Universidad de Chile . Volume 23, 1863, p. 464.

[3] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape I . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1919, p. 41 .