Opuntia wetmorei
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Opuntia wetmorei is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Opuntia wetmorei grows low shrubby with numerous branches. The cloudy green, more or less cylindrical, shoot sections tapering towards their ends are slightly purple stained and swollen around the areoles. They are 4 to 10 inches long and up to 2 inches in diameter. The leaf rudiments , which are up to 2 millimeters long , fall off prematurely. The small whitish or ocher-colored areoles have short yellowish glochids . The numerous unequal bristle-like, flattened thorns are whitish to yellowish or brownish. Some of them are bent back, some lie against the surface of the shoot and some stick out. The thorns are 2 to 3.5 inches long.
Nothing is known about the flowers . The reddish purple fruits are up to 3 inches long. Their upper areoles have white bristles.
Distribution and systematics
Opuntia wetmorei is common in the Argentine province of Mendoza .
The first description by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose was published in 1923.
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 481-482 .
Individual evidence
- ^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae . Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape IV . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1923, p. 255-256 ( online ).