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Etymology: The
genus
name
“Puna”
derives from the
indigenous word
"Puna" that
indicate the western region up to 4500 m that extends from the Peru,
going throughout Bolivia to the Argentinean North. Delimited at
west by a costal chain of high volcanic picks
and by the Cordillera mountainous chain to the east. The Argentinean
Puna is the natural continuation of the
Bolivian highland.
The
species name
"clavarioides"
alludes to the individual stems being Clavaria-like
and superficially resembling the fruiting bodies of the basidiomycete
fungus genus Clavaria
Description:
The typical
form has distinctive conical stems with flattened tops but
monstrous forms with
cristate fan-shaped or branching finger-like stems are widely seen
in cultivation.
Sometimes all three of these stem forms may be seen on a single plant.
In the
wild, P. clavarioides grows with just the tops of the stems
exposed above ground.
Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and
cultivars of Puna clavarioides.
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