Opuntia alko-tuna
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Opuntia alko-tuna is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet alko-tuna is a local name and means ( Quechua alko "dog" + Spanish tuna "prickly pear"): "dog cactus".
description
Opuntia alko-tuna grows shrubby, is upright, richly branched and reaches heights of up to 1.4 meters. A clear trunk of up to 10 centimeters in diameter is formed. The green, thick, egg-shaped to flattened and rounded shoot sections are somewhat humped. They are up to 18 inches long and 11 inches wide. The areoles are gray, the glochids brownish. The two to six awl thorns are gray and 1 to 5 centimeters long.
The wheel-shaped, yellow flowers reach a length of 6 to 7 centimeters. The pear-shaped green fruits have a diameter of up to 4 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Opuntia alko-tuna is common in Bolivia in the department of Cochabamba at altitudes of about 2700 meters.
It was first described in 1950 by Martín Cárdenas .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 447 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 7.
- ↑ Lilloa . Volume 23, 1950, pp. 23-25.