Cumulopuntia

Cumulopuntia F.Ritter (1980)

🌵 Author(s)	Friedrich Ritter
🌵 Published in	Kakteen Südamerika 2: 399 (1980)
🌵 Type	Cumulopuntia ignescens

Etymology

Latin cŭmŭlus ‘heap, pile, piled-up mass’ + Opuntia. For the habit and the affinity to Opuntia. Ritter described the genus as growing in “low, loose to dense heaps” (“[n]iedrige, lockere bis dichte Haufen”).

The fungus Tulasnella cumulopuntioides S. Fujimori, J.P. Abe, I. Okane & Y. Yamaoka (in Mycoscience 60 (1): 79. 2018) was named after this genus because “[t]he monilioid cell chains look like stems of Cumulopuntia (Cactaceae)”.