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Opuntia monacantha Haw.

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Opuntia monacantha Haw., Suppl. Pl. Succ. 81 (1819)
Opuntia monacantha Haw.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Haw.
Haw.
1819
81
Not based on Cactus monacanthos Willd. Haworth 1819 refers to the Willd. taxon “Cactus monacanthos” with a question mark and changes the ending. The basonym “Cactus monoacanthos” can’t be typified as a specimen has not been located, we are not constrained to use the spelling “monoacanthos" and the Greek ending "-os"can be changed to a Latin ending ("-a") for the combination in Opuntia.
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Opuntia monacantha Haw.
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Opuntia monacantha

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monacantha

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Plants to 4-5 m high, often with thick cylindric trunk. Stem segments to c. 30 cm long, often much less, ± ovate to oblong or obovate, flattened; base narrowed. Areoles villous and with brownish glochids; spines 1-2 per areole, 1-4 cm long. Fls on margins of stem segments, 5-9 cm diam. Sepals and petals 3-4 cm long, yellow, with red tinge or median red stripe on outside of outer petals, ovate. Filaments white or greenish. Stigmas c. 5 mm long. Fr. 5-7.5 × 3-4.5 cm, obovoid, reddish purple, fleshy, spineless; apex with large round depression. Pulp pale green or greenish white.

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Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia vulgaris Mill.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
Opuntia vulgaris Mill.
Opuntia monacantha Haw.

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Opuntia monacantha Haw.
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c576039e-3a41-473c-bec0-c7fce3215171
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Names_Plants
3 August 2009
7 November 2024
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