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Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm.

This species name was first published in in Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6(2): 207–208. 1850.

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0001258261.

Synonyms of Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm.

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Opuntia expansa Griffiths in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29: 14. 1916. wfo-0000385796
Opuntia magnarenensis Griffiths in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29: 9. 1916. wfo-0000385835
Opuntia riparia Griffiths in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 27: 26. 1914. wfo-0000385979
Opuntia pyrocarpa Griffiths in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 43: 90. 1916. wfo-0000386025
Opuntia valida Griffiths in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 27: 24. 1914. wfo-0000386043
Opuntia caesia Griffiths in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29: 13. 1916. wfo-0000386475
Opuntia microcarpa K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 714. 1898. wfo-0001250929
Opuntia megacarpa Griffiths Ill. Stud. Opuntia: 91, pl. 2, f. 3, pl. 13, f. 10. 1909. wfo-0001287338
Opuntia occidentalis var. megacarpa (Griffiths) Munz Aliso 4(1): 94. 1958. wfo-0001287354
Opuntia cantabrigiensis Lynch in Gard. Chron., ser. 3 33: 98. 1903. wfo-0001287487
Opuntia engelmannii var. megacarpa (Griffiths) Fosberg in Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 33(2): 100. 1934. wfo-0001289848
Opuntia flavescens Peebles in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 9: 67. 1937. wfo-0001289852
Opuntia engelmannii var. flavescens (Peebles) L.D.Benson Cacti Ariz.: 58. 1950. wfo-0001289853
Opuntia neochrysacantha Bravo in Cact. Suc. Mex. 19(1): 20. 1974. wfo-0001289865
Opuntia bensonii Sánchez-Mej. in Cact. Suc. Mex. 17(2): 47, f. 40. 1972. wfo-0001289868
Opuntia occidentalis var. megacarpa (Griffiths) Munz in Aliso 4: 94. 1958. wfo-0001433053
Opuntia engelmannii f. occidentalis (Engelm.) Schelle Handb. Kakteenkult.: 52. 1907. wfo-0001433145
Opuntia engelmannii subsp. occidentalis Engelm. in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 291. 1856. wfo-0001433147
Opuntia lindheimeri subsp. cantabrigiensis (Lynch) Guiggi in Cactology 3: 8. 2012. wfo-0001433235

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Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link