Pereskiopsis spathulata

Pereskiopsis spathulata
	Pereskiopsis spathulata; cutting
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Opuntioideae
Tribe :	Cylindropuntieae
Genre :	Pereskiopsis
Type :	Pereskiopsis spathulata
Scientific name
	Pereskiopsis spathulata
	( Otto ex Pfeiff. ) Britton & Rose

Pereskiopsis spathulata is a species of plant in the genus Pereskiopsis from the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Pereskiopsis spathulata grows shrubby , is only slightly branched and reaches heights of 1 to 2 meters. The overhanging shoots are finely frosted. The wedge-shaped leaf blade of the thick leaves is 2 to 2.5 inches long. The areoles are covered with brown glochids . The one or two stiff thorns are white with a darker tip and up to 2.5 inches long.

The flowers are red. Nothing is known about the fruit .

Pereskiopsis spathulata is possibly just one of the local forms of Pereskiopsis diguetii .

Distribution and systematics

Pereskiopsis spathulata is common in Mexico . The exact distribution area is unclear.

It was first described as Pereskia spathulata in 1837 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in 1907 in the genus Pereskiopsis, which they newly established . A synonym is Opuntia spathulata (Otto ex Pfeiff.) FACWeber .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 533 .

Individual evidence

↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 137 (online) .
↑ Pereskiopsis, a new genus of Cactaceae . In: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Volume 50, 1907, p. 333 (online) .

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[1] Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, p. 137 (online) .

[2] Pereskiopsis, a new genus of Cactaceae . In: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Volume 50, 1907, p. 333 (online) .