Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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Showing Opuntia polyacantha

Cactaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Cactaceae(fam.)
Opuntia(gen.)
polyacantha(sp.)

Opuntia polyacantha Haw.

, legitimate

, scientific

Haworth, A.H. (1819), Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum

[tax. nov.]

Type: "HABITAT prope flumen Missouri, in America Boreali, in aridis locus. CULT. in hort. Chels. A.D. 1814."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia sphaerocarpa var. utahensis Engelm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia rhodantha K.Schum.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia erinacea var. utahensis (Engelm.) L.D.Benson

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia sp. C

[n/a]

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised)

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (10 December 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2019.

Nuytsia

342

[secondary reference]

Text: "New naturalised record for WA. R.J. Chinnock in litt. (23/05/2019)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia sphaerocarpa var. utahensis Engelm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia rhodantha K.Schum.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia erinacea var. utahensis (Engelm.) L.D.Benson

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia sp. C

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia sp. C

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Opuntia sp. C

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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