     
Taxon: Opuntia phaeacantha Engelm.
Genus: Opuntia
Family: Cactaceae subfamily: Opuntioideae tribe: Opuntieae.
Nomen number: 310532
Place of publication: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts ser. 2, 4:52. 1849 (Pl. fendler.)
Name verified on: 28-Aug-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-May-2007
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions:
4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN BECAUSE RARE OR ENDANGERED
Species on the following lists:
- brown-spine prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- dense-spine prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- desert prickly-pear (Source: Fla Entomol
84:484.) – English
- major prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- Mojave prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- New Mexico prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- purple-fruit prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- yellow-spine prickly-pear (Source: Cact Fam
) – English
- figuier de Barbarie à fruits violets (Source: Zander Ency
) – French
- blåopuntia (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
- Environmental: ornamental (fide Fla Entomol 84:484. 2001)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
Cultivated:
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Anderson, E. F.
2001. The cactus family.
511.
- Backeberg, C.
1977. Das Kakteen Lexikon.
326–327.
- Benson, L.
1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada.
927–928.
- Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada.
1978. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991
1:263.
- CITES.
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Harrington, H.
1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.
- Hickman, J. C., ed.
1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
- IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
- Irish, M.
2001. The ornamental prickly pear industry in the southwestern United States.
Florida Entomol.
84:484.
- Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles.
1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
- Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins.
1980. A flora of New Mexico.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Welsh, S. L. et al.
1993. A Utah flora.
- More:
Check other web resources for Opuntia phaeacantha Engelm.:
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?310532 (25 May 2013)
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