Opuntia jaliscana
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Opuntia jaliscana is a species in the genus of Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the family of the cactus (Cactaceae). The specific epithet jaliscana means 'from the location in the state of Jalisco (Mexico)'.
description
Opuntia jaliscana grows tree-shaped with a conspicuous trunk, is richly branched and reaches heights of growth of up to 4 meters. The narrow, elongated, green, very downy and tuberous shoot sections are up to 20 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters wide. The numerous small areoles are up to 2.5 centimeters apart. Short yellow glochids and 1 to 3 thorns arise from them . The yellow, slightly flattened thorns are 5 to 15 millimeters long, protruding and crooked towards the tip of the shoot.
The flowers are reddish orange and reach a length of up to 3 centimeters and a diameter of 2 centimeters. Nothing is known about the fruit .
Distribution and systematics
Opuntia jaliscana is common in the Mexican states of Jalisco , Guanajuato, and Michoacán . The first description was published in 1972 by Helia Bravo Hollis .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 462-463 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cactaceas y Suculentas Mexicanas. Volume 17, No. 4, p. 115, 1972.