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(Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
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Species
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OPUNTIA ELATIOR Mill.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gard. Dict. ed. 8. 1768
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Reference
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Britton & Rose, in Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. No. 248. 1:153. 1919.
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Synonym
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Cactus nigricans Haw. Misc. Nat. 187. 1803. Cactus elatior (Mill.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 34. 1813. Cactus tuna I8 elatior (Mill.) Sims, loc. cit. sub pI. I557. 1813. Cactus tuna y nigricans (Haw.) Sims, in Curt. Bot. Mag. 38: pl. I557. 1813.
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Description
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Densely branched shrubs to 5 m. tall, the young stem joints narrowly obovate to suborbicular, to 4 dm. long, olive-green, the areoles 2-4 cm. apart, minutely hairy and with 1-8 unequal, terete-acicular brown black-tipped spines 1-7 cm. long. Flowers about 5 cm. in diameter, deep yellow more or less tinged with red or salmon, the inner segments obovate, mucronate, about 2 cm. long; staminal
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Habit
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shrub
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Description
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filaments 1.5-2.0 cm. long, deeply tinged with red or salmon, yellow toward the base; ovary obovoid-turbinate, about 2 cm. long and broad, the areoles unarmed or nearly so. Berry obovoid, truncate, 4-5 cm. long, deep red when ripe.
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Distribution
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Original habitat unknown; said to be frequent in Curagao, coastal Colombia, and Panama (Britton & Rose), but definitely known stations in Panama at present are limited to the islands of the Gulf of Panama.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Taboguilla Island, Howe 3792; San Jose Island, on rocks of beach, Erlan- son I7I; locality indefinite, Christopherson 207.
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