Punotia lagopus

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Punotia lagopus

Punotia lagopus (K.Schum.) D.R.Hunt in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 25: 26. 2011 sec. Hunt 20111 wfo-0000750019
  • ≡Opuntia lagopus K.Schum., Gesamtbeschr. Kakt., Nachtr. 1: 151. 1903 syn. sec. Hunt 20111 wfo-0001287433
  • ≡Tephrocactus lagopus (K.Schum.) Backeb., Kaktus-ABC: 106. 1936 ["1935"] syn. sec. Kew 20192 wfo-0001287498
  • ≡Tephrocactus floccosus var. lagopus (K.Schum.) F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 4: 1242. 1981 syn. sec. Korotkova 20213 wfo-0001434337
  • ≡Austrocylindropuntia lagopus (K.Schum.) I.Crook, J.Arnold & M.Lowry in Bradleya 21: 89. 2003 syn. sec. Hunt 20111 wfo-0000557341
  • ≡Andinopuntia lagopus (K.Schum.) Guiggi in Cactology 2 (Suppl.): 1. 2011 syn. sec. Hunt 20111 wfo-0000748425
  • –Austrocylindropuntia lagopus (K.Schum.) F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 4: 1242. 1981, nom. inval. syn. sec. Hunt 20111 wfo-0001430090
      • Holotype: Peru, in der Nähe von Arequipa auf den Anden [near Arequipa in the Andes], alt. 4000 m, A. Weberbauer 1355 (B accession no. B 810007056)
  • 1. Hunt, D.R. 2011: Punotia gen. nov. – Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives 25: 26, 2. Kew 2019: Dataset export of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants database, dated 19 December. – Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 3. Korotkova, N. 2021: Revisions of Deamia, Disocactus, Epiphyllum, Hatiora, Kimnachia, Lepismium, Leuenbergeria, Lymanbensonia, Pereskia, Pfeiffera, Pseudorhipsalis, Rhipsalidopsis, Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera, Selenicereus, Strophocactus, Weberocereus, and various other names. In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 250-270. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.51.51208
  • =Tephrocactus lagopus subvar. brachycarpus Rauh & Backeb., Descr. Cact. Nov. 1: 7. 1957 ["1956"] syn. sec. Kew 20194 wfo-0001434347
  • ≡Opuntia lagopus subvar. brachycarpa (Rauh & Backeb.) G.D.Rowley in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 13: 5. 1958 syn. sec. Kew 20194 wfo-0001433224
  • 4. Kew 2019: Dataset export of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants database, dated 19 December. – Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens
  • =Tephrocactus lagopus var. leucolagopus Rauh & Backeb., Descr. Cact. Nov. 1: 7. 1957 ["1956"] syn. sec. Hunt 20115 wfo-0001289221
  • ≡Opuntia lagopus var. leucolagopus (Rauh & Backeb.) G.D.Rowley in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 13(1): 6. 1958 syn. sec. Hunt 20115 wfo-0001289222
  • 5. Hunt, D.R. 2011: Punotia gen. nov. – Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives 25: 26
  • =Opuntia lagopus var. pachyclada (Rauh & Backeb.) G.D.Rowley in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 13(1): 5. 1958 syn. sec. Korotkova 20216 wfo-0001287985
  • ≡Tephrocactus lagopus var. pachycladus Rauh & Backeb. in Sitzungsber. Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl.: 204. 1958 syn. sec. TROPICOS 1988+7 wfo-0001287499
  • 6. Korotkova, N. 2021: Revisions of Deamia, Disocactus, Epiphyllum, Hatiora, Kimnachia, Lepismium, Leuenbergeria, Lymanbensonia, Pereskia, Pfeiffera, Pseudorhipsalis, Rhipsalidopsis, Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera, Selenicereus, Strophocactus, Weberocereus, and various other names. In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 250-270. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.51.51208, 7. TROPICOS 1988+: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden – https://tropicos.org.
  • =Tephrocactus lagopus var. aureo-penicillatus Rauh & Backeb. in Sitzungsber. Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl.: 206. 1958 syn. sec. TROPICOS 1988+8 wfo-0001287500
  • ≡Opuntia lagopus var. aureo-penicillata (Rauh & Backeb.) G.D.Rowley in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 13(1): 5. 1958 syn. sec. Korotkova 20219 wfo-0001287984
  • 8. TROPICOS 1988+: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden – https://tropicos.org., 9. Korotkova, N. 2021: Revisions of Deamia, Disocactus, Epiphyllum, Hatiora, Kimnachia, Lepismium, Leuenbergeria, Lymanbensonia, Pereskia, Pfeiffera, Pseudorhipsalis, Rhipsalidopsis, Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera, Selenicereus, Strophocactus, Weberocereus, and various other names. In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 250-270. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.51.51208
  • =Tephrocactus lagopus var. aureus Rauh & Backeb. in Sitzungsber. Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl.: 206. 1958 syn. sec. TROPICOS 1988+10 wfo-0001287501
  • ≡Opuntia lagopus var. aurea (Rauh & Backeb.) G.D.Rowley in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 13(1): 5. 1958 syn. sec. Korotkova 202111 wfo-0001287983
  • 10. TROPICOS 1988+: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden – https://tropicos.org., 11. Korotkova, N. 2021: Revisions of Deamia, Disocactus, Epiphyllum, Hatiora, Kimnachia, Lepismium, Leuenbergeria, Lymanbensonia, Pereskia, Pfeiffera, Pseudorhipsalis, Rhipsalidopsis, Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera, Selenicereus, Strophocactus, Weberocereus, and various other names. In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 250-270. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.51.51208
  • =Tephrocactus malyanus Rausch in Kakteen And. Sukk. 22(3): 43. 1971 syn. sec. Kew 201912 wfo-0001289160
  • ≡Austrocylindropuntia malyana (Rausch) F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 4: 1244. 1981 syn. sec. Kew 201912 wfo-0000557345
  • 12. Kew 2019: Dataset export of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants database, dated 19 December. – Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens
  • =Andinopuntia lagopus subsp. septentrionalis Guiggi in Cactology 5 (Suppl. II): 1. 2016 syn. sec. Kew 201913 wfo-0001430040
  • 13. Kew 2019: Dataset export of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants database, dated 19 December. – Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens
  • –Tephrocactus floccosus var. lapopus (K.Schum.) F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 4: 1242. 1981 syn. sec. TPL 201314 wfo-0001289220
  • 14. TPL 2013: The Plant List v. 1.1 – http://www.plantlist.org/.

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Notes

The type for this name is given as Weberbauer s.n. in the protologue, but the only specimen extant in the spirit collection at B (where the Weberbauer types of other names are located) has the number Weberbauer 1355. Crook & al. (2003, Bradleya 21: 89) selected a neotype for the name (Webster 26, K) because they believed that the original material at B was destroyed but carry on to say that it could serve as epitype if original material should be discovered subsequently. Even though there is no locality associated with Weberbauer 1355 on the label, there is little doubt that this specimen is the holotype of the name. The name is shown as “Opuntia cfr. lagopus ” on the original label, and this might indicate that the specimen is not the type collection. However, we cannot positively establish that the label is indeed original, or whether it was produced slightly later than the protologue, and the “cfr.” (“confer”) was added because the incongruence of the type number with the protologue. The material of the specimen is without any doubts representing O. lagopus, and we are strongly inclined to accept this specimens as the holotype of the name. This makes the neotypification by Crook & al. (l.c.) superfluous.A

Distribution (Area)

Bolivia nativeB Peru nativeB

Distribution (General)

Peru (Puno); also reported from Bolivia (LaPaz), close to Ulla Ulla.
C

Diagnosis

As given for the genus.

Description

Plant body forming dense cushion-like mounds < c. 60 cm x 2 m diameter from a single rootstock; segments slender cylindric, <>45 cm, allowing especially tight-packed growth, tuberculate, densely hairy, believed to play little or no part in photosynthesis; leaves <7 mm, almost hidden in the hair, persistent, functional; areoles with very long uniseriate marginal hairs (trichomes) c. 2 cm; glochids rather sparse, hidden, 1-1.5 cm, slender, white or hyaline, easily detached but retained in the hair; spines usually 1, 2-2.5 cm, yellow; flowers small, 1.5-3 cm, yellow, buried in the tomentum, except at anthesis; fruit ovoid, thin-walled, pale pink; seeds c. 5 mm in diameterC

Bibliography

A. Eggli, U. & Leuenberger, B. E. 2008: Type specimens of Cactaceae names in the Berlin Herbarium (B). – Willdenowia 38: 213-280 (as Opuntia lagopus K.Schum.)
B. Hunt, D.R. 2016: CITES Cactaceae Checklist. 3rd edition. – published by the author
C. Hunt, D.R. 2011: Punotia gen. nov. – Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives 25: 26