Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Opuntia aurantiaca

Cactaceae Juss.

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

Opuntia aurantiaca Lindl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lindley, J. in Lindley, J. (ed.) (1833), Edwards's Botanical Register 19

:

t. 1606

[tax. nov.]

Type: (none cited).

Maiden, J.H. (1911), Spread of Opuntia aurantiaca (prickly pear).

Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales

:

1048

[secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1911), The prickly pears of interest to Australia. No. 1.

Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales

:

326 & Plate

[secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

503

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tiger Pear

[n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

94

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Cactaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

142

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tiger Pear

[n/a]

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Cactaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

69, Map 85

APC

[secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Opuntia ferox (Willd.) Haw. legitimate by

Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 2

: 704

common name:

Tiger Pear

[n/a]

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cactaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

202

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tiger Pear

[n/a]

Stajsic, V. & Carr, G.W. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cactaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

123, Fig. 23i-k

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

:

24

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cactaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

202

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tiger Pear

[n/a]