Taxonomic account

Opuntia cochenillifera

Opuntia cochenillifera (L.) Mill.

Name accepted in Plants of the World Online. [2-WWW]

SpeciesAccount scope · nomenclature

Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Opuntia
Ranga: Species
Genus list verification: 11 October 2026 [2-WWW]

Names in the literature

Synonyms and spelling variants linked to the accepted name in WCVP 16, including updates to the genus list. [27-WWW] [2-WWW]

Cactus cochenillifer L.
Cactus subinermis Link ex Steud.
Nopalea brittonii Houghton
Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck
Nopalea nuda Backeb.
Opuntia coccinellifera Steud. (spelling variant)

Nomenclatural basis

The genus's species list was checked in POWO on 11 October 2026. Authorship and links between older names were compared with WCVP 16, a snapshot from 4 June 2026. [27-WWW] [2-WWW] [2-WWW]

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