Taxon: Opuntia aurantiaca Lindl.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• jointed cactus   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• jointed prickly-pear   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  
• tiger-pear   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• litjieskaktus   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• cacto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cactus   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Noxweed Aust; Weeds SAfr; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Entre Rios; Paraguay; Uruguay

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Africa [s.]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America

      Cultivated: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Africa [s.]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. (Cact Fam) [lists as O. aurantiaca Gillies ex Lindl.].
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires. (F BuenAir)
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Henderson, M. et al. 1987. Declared weeds and alien invader plants in South Africa. Botanical Research Institute, bulletin 413. (Weeds SAfr)
• Hosking, J. R. et al. 1988. Pl. Protect. Quart. 3:117.
• Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist. (CITES Cact L)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Opuntia aurantiaca.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Opuntia aurantiaca. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Opuntia aurantiaca Lindl.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
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?316387 (09 February 2010)

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