Tunilla

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Tunilla
Tunilla soehrensii

Tunilla soehrensii

Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily : Opuntioideae
Tribe : Opuntieae
Genre : Tunilla
Scientific name
Tunilla
DRHunt & Iliff

Tunilla is a genus of plants from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Spanish word "tunilla", which is used to designate some species. It means little tuna .

description

The low-growing species of the genus Tunilla are articulated and often form cushions. Your warty shoot sections are spherical, cylindrical or pressed. The white to brown, with glochids provided Areoles stand apart 1 to 2 centimeters. The numerous thorns are needle-like.

The flowers are yellow, orange or red to purple, rarely pink or white.

The fruits that burst open at a single lateral gap are fleshy and thin-walled. The small to medium-sized, irregularly kidney-shaped seeds are 2.5 to 4.5 millimeters long and compressed on the sides.

Systematics and distribution

The species of the genus Tunilla are distributed in southern Peru , Bolivia , Chile and northwest Argentina .

The first description of the genus was made in 2000 by David Richard Hunt and James Iliff . The type species of the genus is Opuntia soehrensii . The genus includes the following species:

A synonym for the genus is Airampoa Frič (1933, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 32.1c).

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives: Bulletin of the International Cactaceae Systematics Group . Volume 9, p. 10, 2000
  2. ^ Edward F. Anderson : The great cactus lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 626-628 .

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