. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 125. FIG. 156.—Opuntia inamoena. A single plant. Photograph by P. H. Dorsett. Series 6. INAMOENAE. A single, prostrate or depressed, usually spineless, light-green Brazilian species. 115. Opuntia inamoena Schumann in Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: 306. 1890. Opuntia quipa Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 894. 1898. Usually low, often prostrate, forming clumps 2 to 10 dm. broad, or sometimes in sheltered situations 6 cm. high and forming dense, extensive thickets; roots fibrous; joints bluish green, when young bright green, orbicular to oblong, 8 to 16
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 125. FIG. 156.—Opuntia inamoena. A single plant. Photograph by P. H. Dorsett. Series 6. INAMOENAE. A single, prostrate or depressed, usually spineless, light-green Brazilian species. 115. Opuntia inamoena Schumann in Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: 306. 1890. Opuntia quipa Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 894. 1898. Usually low, often prostrate, forming clumps 2 to 10 dm. broad, or sometimes in sheltered situations 6 cm. high and forming dense, extensive thickets; roots fibrous; joints bluish green, when young bright green, orbicular to oblong, 8 to 16 cm. long, usually quite thick, sometimes 3 cm. thick, usually quite spineless; leaves minute, 2 mm. long; areoles small, when young filled with numerous yellow- ish-brown glochids; glochids unequal, spreading, easily becoming de- tached; flowers small, brick-red; petals spreading; filaments orange; style yellow; stigma-lobes pale green; fruit globular, yellowish, to 3 cm. in diameter. Type locality: Schumann cites Rio de Janeiro in original description. Distribution: Pernambuco, Bahia, and MinasGeraes, Brazil. This plant is known as quipa in Bahia, Brazil. This species is very common in all the dry part of Bahia and, although abundant and mostly spineless, is avoided by all kinds of grazing animals, even when the country is devoid of other suitable forage. It has been suggested that the plant may be bitter, or that the glochids are troublesome; the glochids, however, are usually wanting on old joints. The plant rarely develops acicular spines up to 3 cm. long on some joints, as shown by specimens collected by Dr. Rose and Mr. Russell near Machado Portello, Brazil. Figure 156 is from a photograph taken by Mr. P. H. Dorsett near Joazeiro, Brazil, in 1914; figure 157 is from a plant collected by Dr. Rose near Machado Portello, Bahia, Brazil, in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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