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Opuntia polyacantha Haw. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Opuntia (family Cactaceae).

The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 5100168) with original publication details: Suppl. Pl. Succ. 82 1819.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:290995-2.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Opuntia heacockiae Arp	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia juniperina Britton & Rose	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia missouriensis DC.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia missouriensis var. rufispina Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia missouriensis var. trichophora Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia polyacantha var. juniperina (Britton & Rose) L.D. Benson	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia polyacantha var. polyacantha	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia polyacantha var. rufispina (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) L.D. Benson	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia polyacantha var. trichophora (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) J.M. Coult.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Opuntia trichophora (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) Britton & Rose	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Tunas polyacantha (Haw.) Nieuwl. & Lunell	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18

Infraspecific taxa:

This species contains the following infraspecific taxa*.

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Synonyms
Opuntia polyacantha var. albispina (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) J.M. Coult.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	1
Opuntia polyacantha var. hystericina (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) B.D. Parfitt	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	5
Opuntia polyacantha var. nicholii (L.D. Benson) B.D. Parfitt	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	2
Opuntia polyacantha var. platycarpa (Engelm.) J.M. Coult.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	1
Opuntia polyacantha var. schweriniana (K. Schum.) Backeb.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	1

The Plant List does not attempt to include all infraspecific taxa.

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record tro-5100168.

• this name record has not changed
• names related to this name have changed