Maihueniopsis crassispina
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Maihueniopsis crassispina is a species of plant in the genus Maihueniopsis from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet crassispina means '(Latin crassispinus) thick, dense, coarsely spiked'.
description
Maihueniopsis crassispina forms large pads with a diameter of 30 to 50 centimeters. The strong, non-humped shoot sections are up to 7 centimeters long and have a diameter of about 2.5 centimeters. The brownish yellow glochids are only formed on the lower areoles . The one or two upright to protruding, awl, straight, round central spines are brown and up to 5 centimeters long. The single protruding radial spike, which can also be missing, is up to 2 centimeters long. Often there are also bristles a few millimeters long.
The golden yellow flowers are up to 7 centimeters long. Your pericarpel is covered with thorns up to 2 centimeters long. The top- shaped fruits have thorns 1.5 to 3 centimeters long along their upper edge.
Distribution and systematics
Maihueniopsis crassispina is widespread in the Atacama region of Chile in the Huasco province .
It was first described in 1980 by Friedrich Ritter . A synonym is Opuntia crassispina (F.Ritter) DRHunt (1997).
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 362-363 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cacti in South America. Results of my 20 years of field research . Volume 3: Chile. Friedrich Ritter Selbstverlag, Spangenberg 1980, pp. 879-880.