Opuntia delaetiana

Opuntia delaetiana
Opuntia delaetiana Plate 148 from 1913 from Blooming Cacti
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Opuntioideae Tribe : Opuntieae Genre : Opuntia ( Opuntia ) Type : Opuntia delaetiana
Scientific name
Opuntia delaetiana
( FACWeber ) Vaupel

Opuntia delaetiana is a species of plant in the genus of Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Belgian coffee importer and succulent specialist Frans de Laet from Kontich.

description

Opuntia delaetiana grows shrubby to tree-shaped. The bright green, thin, somewhat wavy, narrow elongated shoot sections are up to 25 centimeters long and up to 8 centimeters wide. The awl leaf rudiments are up to 4 millimeters long. The areoles are large, glochids are initially absent and then are brown. The three to five straight thorns are yellowish brown and up to 4 inches long.

The wheel-shaped orange flowers reach a diameter of 5 to 7 centimeters. The red, elongated to pear-shaped fruits are 5 to 7 centimeters long and 3 to 5 centimeters in diameter.

Distribution and systematics

Opuntia delaetiana is common in Paraguay and northeast Argentina .

It was first described as Opuntia elata var. Delaetiana in 1904 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber . Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel raised the variety to the rank of a species in 1913.

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literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 455 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 63.
2. ↑ Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle . Volume 10, Paris 1904, p. 392 (online) .
3. ↑ Blooming cacti . Volume 3, J. Neumann, Neudamm 1913, plate 148.

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