Opuntia x lucayana Britton
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cactaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stems ascending, often forming dense clumps. Joints various, linear oblong to obovate, often 10 dm. long, 6-15 cm. wide, olive-green, slightly lustrous, more or less crenate, about 1.5 cm. thick, knobbed at the areoles; areoles distant, nearly 1 cm. broad, white-velvety; glochides numerous, yellow, 6 mm. long or less, mostly borne at the upper margins of the areoles; spines 3-8 at each areole, light-yellow, flattened on the upper side, subulate, straight, often somewhat twisted, the longer ones 12 cm. long or less; flowers yellow, 7-8 em. broad; stamens about half as long as the petals; ovary narrowly pyriform, 4-5 cm. long, its upper areoles bearing 1-3 subulate pale-yellow spines 2.5 cm. long or less, which are sometimes persistent on the fruit; berry pyriform, 5-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Scrub-lands, Grand Turk Island. Endemic. Turk's Islands Prickly-pear. The reference to Opuntia Tuna at the place of original publication of this species is erroneous ; as now understood, O. Tuna grows naturally only in Jamaica. O. lucayana may be a hybrid between O. Dillenii and O. Nashii.
Grand Turk Bahamas South America|