Tacinga
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Tacinga is a genus of plants from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The botanical name of the genus is an anagram of the word "Catinga", the distribution area of the genus in the Brazilian Caatinga .
description
The species of the genus Tacinga grow shrubby, are sometimes weakly climbing or creeping. The green shoots are round and stick-like in cross section, sometimes slightly pressed or round, elongated or elliptical and somewhat flattened. They can be articulated and become woody with age. The strongly receded leaves are small, slender and cylindrical. From the black, with glochids occupied Areoles spring 2 to 3 short spines , which also may be missing and fall soon.
The pale yellow, green to purple to brown mottled flowers arise along the segment edges or near the tip of the shoot. They open during the day or are open day and night. The spherical to elongated, shoot-like pericarpel is covered with tiny scales and glochid-bearing areoles.
The spherical to elongated, fleshy fruits are green, white, brownish or reddish. The remnant of the flower falls off quickly. They contain whitish, almost spherical to pear-shaped seeds that are slightly compressed on the sides and 3 to 4 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
The species of the genus Tacinga are found in the Caatinga vegetation in the east and northeast of Brazil .
The first description of the then monotypical genus was published by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose in 1919. The type species of the genus is Tacinga funalis . The genus includes the following species: The subspecies Tacinga inamoena subsp. Listed by Anderson (2005) . subcylindica and Tacinga saxatilis subsp. estevesii are now listed as a separate species (see also IUCN Red List).
- Tacinga braunii Esteves
- Tacinga estevesii (PJBraun) PJBraun 2015
- Tacinga funalis Britton & Rose
- Tacinga inamoena (K.Schum.) NPTaylor & Stuppy
- Tacinga palmadora (Britton & Rose) NPTaylor & Stuppy
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Tacinga × quipa
is a hybrid of Tacinga inamoena and Tacinga palmadora . Its common name is "Quipa". - Tacinga saxatilis (F.Ritter) NPTaylor & Stuppy
- Tacinga subcylindica (Machado & NP Taylor) Machado & NPTaylor 2011
- Tacinga werneri (Eggli) NPTaylor & Stuppy
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 614-616 .
- Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape I . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1982, ISBN 3-437-30380-5 , p. 633-637 .
- NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape I . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1919, p. 39-40 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward F. Anderson : The great cactus lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 614-616 .
