Much-branched spreading shrubs forming thickets, developing a trunk with age. Joints arcuate, cylindrical, tuberculate, c. 3 cm in diam., glaucous-green. Leaves linear to terete, 3-6 (-12) cm long, arcuate, fleshy, persistent. Areoles with a protruding white woolly pubescence; with 1 or 2 acicular, straight, strong yellow-brown spines up to 5 cm long. Flowers with the hypanthium forming a reduced apical spineless joint which in turn may proliferate; petaloid segments 2-3 cm long, orange or greenish yellow. Fruit not seen in South African material. ('Green, pear-shaped, 9 cm long, usually sterile; seeds large, irregular, 10 mm broad' fide Britton & Rose). From: Obermeyer, AA. 1976. Cactaceae. Fl. S. Africa 22: 144-156. BRI, Dept. Agric. & Tech. Services, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Opuntia exaltata A.Berger
Much-branched shrub, 2-4 m high. Branches cylindrical, up to 0.5 m long, green or somewhat glaucous; tubercles in a few spirals, sharply defined, vertically rhomboid to decurrent-obovate; spines (1)2-4, strong, straight, up to 80(-130) mm long. Leaves subulate, persistent, with areoles at upper extremities of tubercles. Perianth not widely flaring, 1/3 of flower length; tepals scarlet, orange or yellowish. Fruit elongate, obovoid-oblong to clavate or ± spherical, ± spiny, sometimes successively proliferous (mostly sterile in SA). Seeds (1-)19, globose or isodiametric, 8-10 mm in diam. From: Winter, PJD; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Cactaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 720-728. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Shrub, up to 5 m high; cladodes cylindrical; tuberculate; glaucous green; areoles white woolly. Spines 1-4, strong, straight, up to 80 mm long, greyish white, white or yellowish brown when young. Leaves linear, 30-60 mm long, curved, fleshy, persistent. Flowers: 60-70 mm long; floral tube relatively long, tuberculate, with porrect, subulate bract scales resembling small leaves. perianth 1/3 of flower length; perianth segments 20-30 mm long, scarlet, orange or yellowish. Fruit elongate, obovoid-oblong to clavate or ± spherical, > 50 mm long, ± spiny. From: Winter, PJD; Retief, E; Meyer, NL. 2017. Cactaceae. In: E Retief & NL Meyer (eds), Plants of the Free State: Inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 438-443. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Origin S America. From: Winter, PJD; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Cactaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 720-728. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Dry Grassland. Grassland. From: Winter, PJD; Retief, E; Meyer, NL. 2017. Cactaceae. In: E Retief & NL Meyer (eds), Plants of the Free State: Inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 438-443. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Recorded as a pest from the Orange Free State, Cape and Natal. Found both wild and cultivated in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and probably northern Chile, according to Britton & Rose. From: Obermeyer, AA. 1976. Cactaceae. Fl. S. Africa 22: 144-156. BRI, Dept. Agric. & Tech. Services, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Opuntia exaltata A.Berger
Native to South America. From: Winter, PJD; Retief, E; Meyer, NL. 2017. Cactaceae. In: E Retief & NL Meyer (eds), Plants of the Free State: Inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 438-443. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb. subsp. exaltata (A.Berger) D.R.Hunt
Opuntia exaltata A.Berger
Opuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Engelm.
| Common name | Language | Reference/barcode | Published as |
|---|---|---|---|
| devil's rope | English | Winter, PJD; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Cactaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 720-728. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. | |
| Langdoringkaktus | Afrikaans | Agricultural Research Centre. 2016. South African Plant Invaders Atlas Database (SAPIA). | |
| langdoringkaktus | Afrikaans | Balsinhas, AA; Engelbrecht, VM; Harding, GB; Joffe, H; Stirton, CH; Wells, MJ. 1986. Catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa, A: Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 53. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 53: 1-658. BRI, Pretoria. |
Opuntia exaltata A.Berger |
| langdoringkaktus | Afrikaans | Winter, PJD; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Cactaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 720-728. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. | |
| long spine cactus | English | Balsinhas, AA; Engelbrecht, VM; Harding, GB; Joffe, H; Stirton, CH; Wells, MJ. 1986. Catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa, A: Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 53. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 53: 1-658. BRI, Pretoria. |
Opuntia exaltata A.Berger |
| Long-spine cactus | English | Agricultural Research Centre. 2016. South African Plant Invaders Atlas Database (SAPIA). | |
| long-spine cactus | English | Winter, PJD; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Cactaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 720-728. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. | |
| makonde | Venda | Balsinhas, AA; Engelbrecht, VM; Harding, GB; Joffe, H; Stirton, CH; Wells, MJ. 1986. Catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa, A: Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 53. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 53: 1-658. BRI, Pretoria. |
Opuntia exaltata A.Berger |
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Caryophyllales
FAMILY Cactaceae
SUBFAMILY Opuntioideae
TRIBE Opuntieae
GENUS Austrocylindropuntia
SPECIES subulata
14 results for Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb.
Barcode: PRE0999392-0 Collector(s) & number: Jaca, T, 1035 | 2018-11-30
South Africa, North West, Ventersdorp, dumping site, adjacent to residental area.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0262950-0 Collector(s) & number: De Villiers, J, MonsterA | 1967-5-22
South Africa, Western Cape, Cultivated in Oudtshoorn.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0262949-0 Collector(s) & number: Carstens, s.n. | 1969-9-15
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town. Koelenhof, on a farm.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0271115-0 Collector(s) & number: Phago, T, PPRI-0181 | 2011-11-25
South Africa, Gauteng, Limpopo. Rust de Winter, Siyabuswa offramp. 25.20447°S 28.62319°E.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Cactaceae Winter, PJD; Bredenkamp, CLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1)720-728
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2017
SERIES CHAPTER
Cactaceae Winter, PJD; Retief, E; Meyer, NLIn: E Retief & NL Meyer (eds), Plants of the Free State: Inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 438-443
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2006
BOOK
The New Cactus Lexicon Hunt, DR1997
1976
FLORA
Cactaceae Obermeyer, AAFlora of Southern Africa 22: 144-156
BRI, Dept. Agric. & Tech. Services, Pretoria
No results found for Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb.
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