Group: Dicot Rank: genus Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 2nd, B, 210

Authors:

Miller, Philip

Published In: The Gardeners Dictionary...Abridged...fourth edition 2:. 1754. (Gard. Dict. Abr. (ed. 4))
Type Specimens

• LT: Opuntia vulgaris Mill. LT designated by N. L. Britton & J. N. Rose, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 50: 503 (20 Feb 1908)

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Caryophyllanae Takht.
• order:  !Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Cactaceae Juss.

Conservation Status:

• CITES Appendix II - Trade controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival - Global
  • Reference UNEP-WCMC. 2003. Checkl. CITES Sp. 1–339. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.
  • Conservation System UNEP-WCMC. 2003. Checkl. CITES Sp. 1–339. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.

Projects: Antioquia , Bolivia , China , Costa Rica , Desert Trees , Ecuador , Flora of Panama , IPCN , Madagascar , Mesoamericana , Missouri , Nicaragua , Pakistan , Panama , Peru , VPA

Common Names:

• cholla cactus (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• Nopal (Spanish)
  • No References available
• prickly-pear (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• Tuna (Costa Rica)
  • No References available
• Tuna (United States)
  • No References available
• tuna-plant (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• xian ren zhang shu
  • No References available

Keywords: BCA, BOL, CEC, FCC, VPA, FNA