Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Cactaceae Juss.
Opuntia ficus-indica (Mill. , legitimate , scientific
Miller, P. (1768) , The Gardeners Dictionary Edn. 8
no. 2
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Cactus ficus-indica L. legitimate
Hamilton, A.G. (1892) , On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26
235
[secondary reference]
Maiden, J.H. (1898) , A preliminary study of the prickly-pears naturalised in New South Wales. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9(9)
990
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984) , Cactaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1
145
[secondary reference]
Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984) , Cactaceae. Flora of Australia 4
72-74, Map 93
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cactus ficus-indica L. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Opuntia megacantha Salm-Dyck legitimate
common name:
Indian Fig [n/a]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26
15
[secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990) , Cactaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1
204
[secondary reference]
common name:
Spineless Cactus [n/a]
common name:
Indian Fig [n/a]
Stajsic, V. & Carr, G.W. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996) , Cactaceae. Flora of Victoria 3
128, Fig. 26n-p
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cactus ficus-indica L. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Opuntia megacantha Salm-Dyck legitimate
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000) , Cactaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1
204
[secondary reference]
common name:
Spineless Cactus [n/a]
common name:
Indian Fig [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005) , Australian Plant Census
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[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cactus ficus-indica L. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Opuntia vulgaris Mill. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Opuntia megacantha Salm-Dyck legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Opuntia paraguayensis K.Schum. legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016) , Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015. Nuytsia 27
5
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