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Yavia cryptocarpa
About
Yavia cryptocarpa is a species of cactus and the only species of the newly discovered genus Yavia. The genus is named after Argentina's department Yavi, Jujuy Province, where the plant is endemic to sparsely vegetated rocky slopes. The plant is also sometimes put in the tribe Notocacteae. The specific epithet cryptocarpa refers to the plant being a cryptocarp. This means that the fruits are formed inside the plant's body, thus being only visible when the plant shrinks in the drought period.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Yavia cryptocarpa
- Slug
- yavia-cryptocarpa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Yavia
- Species
- cryptocarpa
- Wikidata QID
- Q147339
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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