Opuntia basilaris

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Family Cactaceae

Fleshy perennials , shrubs , trees or vines , terrestrial or epiphytic. Stems jointed , terete , globose , flattened, or fluted , mostly leafless and variously spiny . Leaves alternate, flat or subulate to terete, vestigial, or entirely absent; spines, glochids (easily detached, small, bristlelike spines), and flowers always arising from cushionlike, axillary areoles (modified short shoots ) . Flowers solitary, sessile, rarely clustered and stalked (in Pereskia), bisexual , rarely unisexual , actinomorphic or occasionally zygomorphic. Receptacle tube (hypanthium or perianth tube) absent or short to elongate , naked or invested with leaflike bracts, scales , areoles, and hairs , bristles , or spines; perianth segments usually numerous , in a sepaloid to petaloid series. Stamens numerous, variously inserted in throat and tube; anthers 2-loculed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary (pericarpel) inferior, rarely superior, 1-loculed, with 3 to many parietal (rarely basal) placentas; ovules usually numerous; style 1; stigmas 2 to numerous, papillate , rarely 2-fid. Fruit juicy or dry, naked, scaly , hairy , bristly , or spiny, indehiscent or dehiscent , when juicy then pulp derived from often deliquescent funicles (except in Pereskia) . Seeds usually numerous, often arillate or strophiolate ; embryo curved or rarely straight; endosperm present or absent; cotyledons reduced or vestigial, rarely leaflike.

About 110 genera and more than 1000 species: temperate and tropical America; Rhipsalis baccifera (J. S. Mueller) Stearn native in tropical Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, Mascarenes, and Sri Lanka; some species of other genera now extensively naturalized in the Old World through human agency; more than 60 genera and 600 species cultivated as ornamentals or hedges in China, of which four genera and seven species more or less naturalized.[1]

Genus Opuntia

Trees or shrubs , erect to trailing , usually many branched, sometimes forming clumps or mats; trunk , when present, initially segmented , appearing continuous with age, main axis determinate, usually terete . Stem segments green or sometimes reddish to purple, usually flattened, circular, elliptic , ovate , lanceolate, or obovate to oblanceolate , 2-60(-120) × 1.2-40 cm, nearly smooth to tuberculate , glabrous or pubescent ; areoles usually elliptic, circular, or obovate, 3-8(-10) × 1-7(-10) mm; wool white, gray, or tan to brown, aging white or gray to black. Spines 0-15+ per areole, white, yellow to brown, red-brown to gray, or black, sometimes partly to wholly white chalky (chalkiness disappearing when wet), aging gray to dark brown to black, with epidermis intact, not sheathed, acicular to subulate , sometimes setose or with hairlike bristles , terete to angular-flattened, to 75(-170) mm, tips sometimes paler or yellow. Glochids in adaxial crescent at margin of areole, in tuft or encircling areole margin, white to yellow to brown, or red-brown, aging white to brown or red-brown. Flowers bisexual or sometimes functionally staminate , radially symmetric ; outer tepals green to yellow with margins tinged color of inner tepals; inner tepals pale yellow to orange, pink to red or magenta, rarely white (unicolored) or with base of a different color (bicolored ), oblong to spatulate , emarginate-apiculate; nectar chamber simple , open, not covered by proximal thickening style. Pollen yellow, grains reticulate or foveolate (opuntioid type). Fruits sometimes proliferating (sprouting from another fruit), if fleshy , green, yellow, or red to purple or, if dry, tan to gray, straight, sometimes stipitate , clavate to cylindric , ovoid , or obovoid to subspheric, 10-120 × 8-120 mm, fleshy to juicy or dry, smooth or tuberculate, spineless or spiny , sometimes burlike. Seeds pale yellow to tan or gray, generally circular to reniform , flattened (discoid ) to subspheric, angular to squarish, sometimes warped, 2-7 × 2-7 mm, glabrous, commonly bearing 1-4 large, shallow depressions due to pressures from adjacent developing seeds; girdle protruding 0.3-3.5 mm, forming ridge or flat wing , or not protruding. x = 11.

Species ca. 150 species: widespread in North America, Mexico, West Indies, South America, including the Galápagos Islands; some species introduced to and naturalized in the Old World.

Many taxa are cultivated for ornamental plants , food, and animal fodder . Some species of Opuntia become obnoxious weeds ; some species have been planted in Africa for stabilization of sand dunes.

Many interspecific hybrids are known and have been named; only five are fully treated here; two other named hybrids recognized by the author are briefly described and cross-referenced under putative parent taxa.[2]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Opuntia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 389 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

O. acanthocarpa (Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow var. acanthocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow (Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow var. coloradensis L.Benson (Colorado Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow var. major (Engelm. & Bigelow) L.Benson (Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow var. thornberi (Thornb. & Bonker) L.Benson (Thornber Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa (Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa var. coloradensis (Colorado Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa var. major (Slender Joint Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acanthocarpa var. thornberi (Thornber's Buckhorn Cholla) · O. acaulis (Opuntia) · O. acicularis (Old Man Whiskers) · O. aciculata (Chenille Prickly Pear) · O. aggeria (Big Bend Pricklypear) · O. alko-tuna (Opuntia) · O. amyclaea (Opuntia) · O. anacantha (Opuntia) · O. anacantha var. kiska-loro (Opuntia) · O. anacantha var. retrorsa (Opuntia) · O. anacantha var. utikilio (Opuntia) · O. apurimacensis (Opuntia) · O. arbuscula (Arizona Pencil Cholla) · O. arcei (Opuntia) · O. arenaria (El Paso Pricklypear) · O. armata (Opuntia) · O. assumptionis (Opuntia) · O. atrispina (Border Prickly-Pear) · O. atropes (Opuntia) · O. atrovirens (Opuntia) · O. auberi (Lengua De Vaca) · O. aurantiaca (Jointed Prickly Pear) · O. aurea (Creeping Beavertail) · O. aureispina (Golden-Spined Prickly Pear) · O. azurea (Coyotillo) · O. basilaris (Beavertail Cactus) · O. basilaris Engelm. & Bigelow var. basilaris (Beavertail Pricklypear) · O. basilaris Engelm. & Bigelow var. brachyclada (Griffiths) Munz (Beavertail Pricklypear) · O. basilaris Engelm. & Bigelow var. heilii Welsh & Neese (Heil's Beavertail Pricklypear) · O. basilaris Engelm. & Bigelow var. longiareolata (Clover & Jotter) L.Benson (Beavertail Pricklypear) · O. basilaris Engelm. & Bigelow var. treleasei (Coult.) Coult. ex Toumey (Bakersfield Cactus) · O. basilaris var. albiflorus (Beavertail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. basilaris (Beavertail Pricklypear) · O. basilaris var. brachyclada (Short Joint Beaver Tail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. Caudata (Short-Joint Beaver-Tail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. cordata (Beavertail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. heilii (Bevertail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. humistrata (Beavertail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. longiareolata (Beavertail Cactus) · O. basilaris var. treleasei (Treleases Beavertail Prickly Pear) · O. bella (Opuntia) · O. bensonii (Opuntia) · O. bigelovii (Teddy-Bear Cactus) · O. bigelovii var. bigelovii (Teddybear Cholla) · O. bisetosa (Opuntia) · O. boldinghii (Opuntia) · O. bonplandii (Opuntia) · O. borinquensis (Olaga) · O. brasiliensis (Brazil Prickleypear) · O. bravoana (Opuntia) · O. cactaceae (Prickly Pear) · O. californica (Brownspined Pricklypear) · O. californica var. californica (California Pricklypear) · O. californica var. parkeri (Brownspined Pricklypear) · O. cantabrigiensis (Texas Pricklypear) · O. canterae (Opuntia) · O. caracasana (Opuntia) · O. cardiosperma (Joyful Opuntia) · O. chaffeyi (Sacasil) · O. chakensis (Opuntia) · O. charlestonensis (Plateau Prickly Pear) · O. chavena (Opuntia) · O. chihuahuensis (Chihuahua Pricklypear) · O. chisosensis (Chisos Mountain Pricklypear) · O. chlorotica (Dollar-Joint Prickly-Pear) · O. chlorotica Engelm. & Bigelow var. chlorotica Engelm. & J.M.Bigel. (Clockface Prickly-Pear) · O. clavata (Club Cholla) · O. cochabambensis (Opuntia) · O. cochenillifera (Cochineal Cactus) · O. cognata (Opuntia) · O. colubrina (Opuntia) · O. compressa var. compressa (Common Pricklypear) · O. conjungens (Opuntia) · O. corallicola (Florida Semaphore Cactus) · O. cordobensis (Argentine Pricklypear) · O. crassa (Opuntia) · O. crystalenia (Opuntia) · O. cubensis (Bullsuckers) · O. curassavica (Opuntia) · O. curvospina (Searchlight Pricklypear) · O. cymochila (Grassland Pricklypear) · O. darrahiana (Opuntia) · O. deamii (Opuntia) · O. decumbens (Lengua De Vaca) · O. dejecta (Nopal Chamacuero) · O. delaetiana (Opuntia) · O. demissa (Pricklypear) · O. densispina (Big Bend Prickly-Pear) · O. depauperata (Opuntia) · O. depressa (Opuntia) · O. discata (Smallfruit Cactus) · O. discolor (Opuntia)

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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 06, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• "Opuntia basilaris". in Flora of North America Vol. 4 Page 143, 144. Published by Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 30, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 06, 2007:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2646164
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-19693
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13785043
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:136376-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 25822
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 19693
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDCAC0D050
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: OPBAT
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 52564

Footnotes

1. Zhen-yu Li & Nigel P. Taylor "Cactaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 209. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Donald J. Pinkava "Opuntia". in Flora of North America Vol. 4 Page 93, 94, 95, 102, 123, 232, 381. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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