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Opuntia macrocentra Engelm.

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Engelm. (1857). In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 292.

Classification

kingdom
Plantae
phylum
Tracheophyta
class
Magnoliopsida
order
Caryophyllales
family
Cactaceae
genus
Opuntia
species
Opuntia macrocentra

Name

Synonyms
Opuntia horstii Heinrich
Opuntia mackensenii var. minor (M.S.Anthony) A.M.Powell & Weedin
Opuntia macrocentra var. minor M.S.Anthony
Opuntia violacea Engelm.
Opuntia violacea Engelm. ex B.D.Jacks.
Opuntia violacea var. castetteri L.D.Benson
Opuntia violacea var. macrocentra (Engelm.) L.D.Benson
Homonyms
Opuntia macrocentra Engelm.
Common names
Black-spined Pricklypear in English
Martin's blunt-spine prickly-pear in English
Martin's blunt-spine prickly-pear in English
Nopal Violaceo in Spanish
Nopal violaceo in Spanish
Palma-violeta in Portuguese
Purple Prickly-pear in English
black-spine prickly pear in English
black-spine prickly-pear in English
black-spine prickly-pear in English
blunt-spine prickly-pear in English
blunt-spine prickly-pear in English
long-spine prickly-pear in English
long-spine prickly-pear in English
nopal violáceo in Spanish
opuncja czarnokolcowa in Polish
palma in Portuguese
palma in Portuguese
palmatória in Portuguese
palmatória in Portuguese
purple prickly pear in English
purple prickly-pear in English
purple pricklypear in English
purppuraopuntia in Finnish
purpuropuntia in Swedish
purpuropuntia in Swedish
reddish-purple prickly-pear in English
reddish-purple prickly-pear in English
Опунция крупноцентровая in Russian
テンコ(天鼓) in Japanese
Purple Prickly-pear in English
Nopal Violaceo in Spanish
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