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  Puna clavarioides forma cristata
(Syn: Opuntia clavarioides "cristata")
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This plant produces fan-shaped, conical and finger-like stems in an unpredictable manner, Sometimes all three of these stem forms may be seen on a single plant.
 

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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Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Scientific Name: Puna clavarioides f. cristata (Schelle) P.V. Heath

Basionym: Opuntia clavarioides f. cristata Schelle

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.

OriginIt came from the states of Mendoza and San Juan in Argentina.

Taxon synonyms

  • Opuntia clavarioides Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 173 (1837)
  • Opuntia clavarioides var. cristata Croucher
    Publication The Garden 13: 106-107, fig. (1878)
  • Opuntia clavarioides f. cristata Schelle
  • Opuntia clavarioides cv. 'Cristata' (Schelle) R. Crook & R. Mottram
    Publication Bradleya 14:110 (99-144: Opuntia index part 2) (1996).
  • Opuntia clavarioides var. fasciata K.Schumann
    Publication Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 10 (10): 159 (1900)

 

 



A crested  fan-shaped stems growing among the typical conical stems with flattened tops.
 

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