Opuntia Miller 1754
Creators
- 1. Centro Universitário da Região da Campanha - URCAMP. Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia / UFSM - Instituto de Geociências / IG / UFSM - Santa Maria, RS. & anabela. biol @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0428 - 9986
- 2. Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia / UFSM - Instituto de Geociências / IG / UFSM - Santa Maria, RS. & rodrigocorreapontes @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2808 - 3835
- 3. LAGEOLAM / UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia / UFSM - Instituto de Geociências / IG / UFSM - Santa Maria, RS. & lesrobaina @ yahoo. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2390 - 6417
- 4. LAGEOLAM / UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia / UFSM - Instituto de Geociências / IG / UFSM - Santa Maria, RS. & romario. trentin @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0615 - 2801
Description
6. Opuntia Miller (1754: 974)
Type (indicated by Linnaeus 1753: 468):— Cactus opuntia L.
Species richness:— Opuntia is a genus with wide geographic distribution and comprises approximately 200 species. In Brazil, there are 5 species of which ocurr in Rio Grande do Sul (Carneiro et al. 2016).
General distribution:— The genus occurs from southern Canada to Uruguay, with the largest number of species in Mexico (Kiesling 2005).
Distribution in Santa Maria river basin:— In SMRB only Opuntia megapotamica Arechavaletae (1905: 42) occurs (Fig. 3A) and it has a wide distribution in fields, rocky outcrops and woods.
Morphologic notes:— The species is characterized by its shrub or arboreal size, with articulated branches, acicular thorns and usually diurnal orange or yellow flowers with fleshy fruits. It blooms from October to March, bearing fruit shortly after flowering.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- L
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Opuntia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Miller
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opuntia Miller, 1754 sec. Oliveira, Pontes, Robaina & Trentin, 2022
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1753) Species plantarum, vol. 1. Salvius, Stockholm, 560 pp.
- Carneiro, A. M., Farias-Singer, R., Ramos, R. A. & Nilson, A. D. (2016) Cactos do Rio Grande do Sul. Fundacao Zoobotanica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 224 pp.
- Kiesling, R. (2005) Cactaceae. In: Burkart, A. & Bacigalupo, N. (Eds.) Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios - Argentina, Tomo IV, Parte IV. Coleccion Cientifica del I. N. T. A, Buenos Aires, pp. 441 - 444.