Taxon: Opuntia macrocentra Engelm.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• black-spine prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• blunt-spine prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• long-spine prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• Martin's blunt-spine prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• purple prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• reddish-purple prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Fla Entomol 84:484. 2001, as Opuntia violacea)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. (Cact Fam) 506.
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada. (Cact US Can) [= Opuntia violacea Engelm.].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Hunt, D. 1999. CITES Cactaceae checklist, ed. 2. (CITES Cact L ed2)
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
• Pinkava, D. J. & B. D. Parfitt. 1988. Nomenclatural changes in Chihuahuan Desert Opuntia (Cactaceae). Sida 13(2):128.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Opuntia macrocentra.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Opuntia violacea Engelm., nom. inval.
  

Check other databases for Opuntia macrocentra Engelm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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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