Tephrocactus floccosus
Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 1934, xlix. 105, in obs., nomen; Backeb. inBackeb. & F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC, 105 (1935).
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Tephrocactus floccosus
Author
(Salm-Dyck) Backeb. in Möller
Chinese genus
球形节仙人掌属
Chinese name
-
Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Leaves
Rudimentary, awl shaped, dark green, fairly persistent, to 7 mm long.
Description
Austrocylindropuntia floccosaSN|4105]]SN|4105]], (syn
Stem Segments
Short cylindrical, sometimes ellipsoidal to subglobose, up to15 cm long, 6 cm in diameter, spirally tuberculate.
Flowers
Up to 3 cm long, petals orange-red (or yellow) with yellow centre; pericarpelswith areoles above, spineless.
Glochids
Long, hairy, soft, sinuous, entangled or straight, sometimes absent and whitish/grey.
Spines
Occasionally 2 or more numerous yellow, erect approx. 2 cm long.
Fruits
Truncate globose, sometimes with tubercles, yellowish when unripe, sugary/orange when ripen and slightly hairy.
Areoles
Borne high on tubercle shoulders.