Opuntia puberula
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Opuntia puberula is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). Spanish common names are "Nopal de Culebra" and "Nopal de Tortuga". The specific epithet puberula means '(Latin puberulus) weakly downy hairy'.
description
Opuntia puberula grows in low shrubs. The green, downy, thick, mostly egg-shaped shoot sections are 7.5 to 12.5 inches long and 5 to 7.5 inches wide. They have reddish tipped, rapidly decaying leaf rudiments up to 4 millimeters long . The areoles , which are quite far apart, have a somewhat reddish halo. Their glochids are short. The two to four spreading, white thorns are up to 1 centimeter long.
The yellow flowers have a length and a diameter of up to 5 centimeters. The spherical fruits are fluffy, not tuberous and up to 3 centimeters long.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Opuntia puberula is distributed in Mexico from the state of Sinaloa to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and from Tamaulipas to Veracruz .
The first description by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer was published in 1837.
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered. The development of the populations is considered stable.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 472 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 156 online .
- ↑ Opuntia puberula in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.3. Posted by: Arias, S., Arreola, H., Bárcenas Luna, R., Cházaro, M., Guadalupe Martínez, J., Sánchez, E. & Terrazas, T., 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2015.