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Glochids or
glochidia (sg.: "glochidium") are hair-like
spines or
short prickles,
generally barbed,
found on the
areoles of
cacti in the sub-family Opuntioideae...
- defenses, as
opposed to
chemical defenses. Not all
functions of
spines or
glochids are
limited to
defense from
physical attacks by
herbivores and
other animals...
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Opuntioideae have spines, as well as
glochids, on
their areoles; some have only
glochids. Structurally, the
glochids seem to be
bristles rather than evolved...
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containing large, smooth,
fixed spines and small,
hairlike prickles called glochids that
readily adhere to skin or hair, then
detach from the plant. The flowers...
- long and 4–12 cm broad.
Instead of
spines it has
numerous white or
yellow glochids 2–3 mm long in
dense clusters. They are
barbed and
thinner than the finest...
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morphologically a
specialised branch; the
region of a
cactus upon
which spines,
glochids, and
flowers are borne. aril A
membranous or
fleshy appendage formed by...
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members of the
subfamily Opuntioideae have
relatively short spines,
called glochids, that are
barbed along their length and
easily shed.
These enter the skin...
- are 6 to 40 cm long and 5 to 13 cm wide. From the
areoles emerging brown glochids, 2 to 4
millimeters long, with two to
seven spines that are
sometimes missing...
- sub-family
Opuntioideae feature fine,
loosely attached short spines called glochids. When the
plant is
disturbed many of
these spines fall off and penetrate...
- Rhigozum. However,
bundled fibres,
nerves or
bristles as in
tissues or the
glochid fascicles of
Opuntia may have
little or
nothing to do with
branch morphology...
