Tunilla silvestris
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Tunilla silvestris is a species of plant in the genus Tunilla from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Tunilla silvestris grows prostrate with partly subterranean, pearl-shaped shoot segments. The circular, pure green shoot segments are small and almost thornless. The occasional thorn is up to 1.7 centimeters long. Sometimes there is a second thorn.
Nothing is known about the flowers and fruits .
Distribution and systematics
Tunilla silvestris is widespread in the Bolivian department of La Paz . It was first described as Opuntia silvestris in 1932 by Curt Backeberg . In 2000 David Richard Hunt and James Iliff placed them in the genus Tunilla . The species is possibly identical to Tunilla minuscula .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 627 .