Tacinga palmadora

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

Tacinga palmadora is a species of the genus Tacinga in the cactus family(Cactaceae). Portuguese trivial names are among others "Palmatória", "Palma de Espinhos", "Quipá de Espinho", "Palmatória de Quipá", "Rabo de Onça".

description

Tacinga palmadora grows upright, shrubby, densely or openly branched and mostly remains low, but can also reach heights of up to 5 meters. Often a clear, heavily thorned trunk up to 9 centimeters in diameter is formed. The shoots are divided into narrow, elongated, thin, somewhat bumpy segments. The segments are 10 to 16 inches long and 3 to 8 inches wide. The white areoles on the shoots are covered with brown glochids . There are 1 to 4 (rarely up to 6) yellow thorns up to 3 centimeters long , which become whitish with age.

The flowers are brick red to bright red. Your bracts are erect to somewhat spread out. The pericarpel is top-shaped. The top-shaped to obovate fruits are greenish to reddish or purple in color. They are 4 to 5 inches long and contain 3 to 5 seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Tacinga palmadora is widespread in northeastern Brazil on sandy or stony ground in the caatinga vegetation at altitudes of 200 to 1000 meters.

It was first described as Opuntia palmadora in 1919 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose . Nigel Paul Taylor and Wolfgang Hermann Stuppy placed them in the genus Tacinga in 2002 .

Tacinga Palma dora is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. not endangered, classified.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 615 .

Individual evidence

^ 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. 202 .
^ Studies in the Opuntioideae (Cactaceae). Succulent Plant Research . Volume 6, 2002, p. 112.
↑ tacinga Palma dora in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on 25 May, 2010.

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[1] 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. 202 .

[2] Studies in the Opuntioideae (Cactaceae). Succulent Plant Research . Volume 6, 2002, p. 112.

[3] tacinga Palma dora in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010 Posted by: Taylor, NP, 2002. Retrieved on 25 May, 2010.