Taxonomic account

Opuntia covillei

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Opuntia covillei Britton & Rose

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]

First publication of the name

Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 50: 532 (1908) [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]

Opuntia × occidentalis var. covillei (Britton & Rose) Parish
Opuntia phaeacantha var. covillei (Britton & Rose) Fosberg
Opuntia × covillei var. peircei Munz

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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