Opuntia borinquensis
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Opuntia borinquensis is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet borinquensis means 'named after the place where it was found'.
description
Opuntia borinquensis grows shrubby with only a few twigs and forms groups with heights of up to 0.5 meters and diameters of up to 2 meters. The cloudy green, bare, elongated to obovate shoot sections are 5 to 8 inches long, up to 4 inches wide and up to 1.5 inches thick. The awl leaf rudiments on it taper to a point. The small areoles are 1 to 2 centimeters apart. The two to three, up to 6 centimeters long, brown thorns turn whitish with age.
Nothing is known about the flowers . The obovate fruits reach a length of up to 1.5 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Opuntia borinquensis is common in Puerto Rico .
The first description was in 1919 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 451 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 103-104 ( online ). .