Opuntia taylorii

Opuntia taylorii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Opuntioideae
Tribe :	Opuntieae
Genre :	Opuntia ( Opuntia )
Type :	Opuntia taylorii
Scientific name
	Opuntia taylorii
	Britton & Rose

Opuntia taylorii is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet taylorii honors the American botanist Norman Taylor (1883–1967).

description

Opuntia taylorii grows as a shrub with several creeping and spreading branches. The bright green, not humped, bare or downy, linear to linear-elongated shoot sections are up to 12 inches long and 1 to 2 inches wide. The non-raised areoles are 1 to 1.5 centimeters apart and have yellowish-brown glochids up to 3 millimeters long . The three to six needle-like, yellowish-brown thorns turn whitish with age and are up to 4 centimeters long.

The small flowers are yellow. The pear-shaped fruits are not thorny and are up to 1.5 centimeters long.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Opuntia taylorii is common in Haiti and the Dominican Republic .

The first description by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose was published in 1908.

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is called " Data Deficient (DD) ", i. H. with insufficient data. The future development of the populations is unknown.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 479 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 236.
^ A preliminary treatment of the Opuntioideae of North America . In: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Volume 50, Number 4, 1908, pp. 520-521 (online) .
↑ Opuntia taylorii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.3. Listed by: Griffith, P. & Majure, L., 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Opuntia taylorii - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 236.

[2] A preliminary treatment of the Opuntioideae of North America . In: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Volume 50, Number 4, 1908, pp. 520-521 (online) .

[3] Opuntia taylorii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.3. Listed by: Griffith, P. & Majure, L., 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2015.