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Opuntia austrina, Florida Pricklypear

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Small, Flora of the Southeastern United States 817, 1933 Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Drawing (Britton and Rose v1, 1919) Original Description What is Opuntia austrina? Opuntia austrina is a small, bushy prickly-pear of peninsular Florida, recognizable by compact shrubs with comparatively small cladodes and bright yellow flowers. It is treated here as distinct from […]

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Opuntia aurea, Zion Beavertail Cactus

Baxter, Cactus and Succulent Journal (U.S.) 5(6): 489, 1933 Holotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium Original Description What is Opuntia aurea? Opuntia aurea is a prostrate, mat-forming prickly-pear of southern Utah and adjacent northern Arizona. Plants typically creep outward in low patches rather than forming upright shrubs,

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Opuntia atrispina, Black-and-yellow-spine Pricklypear

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Griffiths, Annual Report Missouri Botanical Garden 21: 172, 1910 Holotype, Isotype, Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Drawing (Britton and Rose, v1 1919, plate XXV, top right) Original Citation What is Opuntia atrispina? Opuntia atrispina is treated here as a distinct black-spined prickly-pear of southwestern Texas (with a larger distribution in Mexico). On this site it is

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Opuntia arenaria, Sand Cactus

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Engelmann, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 301, 1856/1857 Lectotype; Isotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium Original Citation What is Opuntia arenaria? Opuntia arenaria is a small, dry-fruited prickly pear of the greater El Paso region (adjacent New Mexico into far-west Texas), typically forming low, creeping mats on sandy or silty soils. Although

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Opuntia angustata (provisional description), Narrow Pricklypear

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Engelmann & J. M. Bigelow, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 292, 1856/1857 Syntype; Painting (Smithsonian Institution); Holotype (Opuntia magnarenensis); Lectotype (Opuntia magnarenensis); Drawing (The Botany of the Expedition, 1856, plate VII) Original Citation (O. angustata) Original Citation (O. magnarenensis) What is Opuntia angustata? Opuntia angustata is a provisionally treated, poorly understood prickly-pear

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