Taxon: Opuntia aurantiaca Lindl.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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:

AL*, 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
  

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:

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

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. [lists as O. aurantiaca Gillies ex Lindl.].
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• 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.
• Henderson, M. et al. 1987. Declared weeds and alien invader plants in South Africa. Botanical Research Institute, bulletin 413.
• Hosking, J. R. et al. 1988. Distribution and biological control of cactus species in eastern Australia. Pl. Protect. Quart. 3:117.
• Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Opuntia aurantiaca.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Opuntia aurantiaca.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Opuntia aurantiaca.

Check other web resources for Opuntia aurantiaca Lindl.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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