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Internal ID UUID64405a962a24a695787128
Scientific name Opuntia aurantiaca
Authority Lindl.
First published in in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 19: pl. 1606. 1833.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Opuntia extensa Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 147. 1837.
Opuntia montevideensis Speg. in Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, ser. 3 4: 515. 1905.
Austrocylindropuntia maldonadensis (Arechav.) Backeb. in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 23: 13. 1951.
Cactus aurantiaca Gillies ex Loudon Hort. Brit. Suppl. 2: 652. 1839.
Cylindropuntia maldonadensis (Arechav.) Backeb. Kaktus-ABC: 122. 1936.
Opuntia maldonadensis Arechav. in Anales Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: 286. 1905.

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Language Common/alternative name
English jointed pricklypear
English tiger-pear
English ttiger-pear
Afrikaans litjieskaktus
Arabic صبير برتقالي
Chinese 鹤进帐

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  • Africa
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Free State
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Northern Provinces
  • Southern America
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Uruguay

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001287228
USDA Plants OPAU10
Tropicos 5100627
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:136363-1
The Plant List tro-5100627
Open Tree Of Life 3943625
NCBI Taxonomy 1574135
IUCN Red List 152714
IPNI 136363-1
iNaturalist 410574
GBIF 5384186
Freebase /m/0gkywz9
EPPO OPUAU
EOL 590104
USDA GRIN 316387
Wikipedia Opuntia_aurantiaca

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Global Actions for Managing Cactus Invasions Novoa A, Brundu G, Day MD, Deltoro V, Essl F, Foxcroft LC, Fried G, Kaplan H, Kumschick S, Lloyd S, Marchante E, Marchante H, Paterson ID, Pyšek P, Richardson DM, Witt A, Zimmermann HG, Wilson JR Plants (Basel) 16-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6843271
doi:10.3390/plants8100421
PMID:31623290
Would the control of invasive alien plants reduce malaria transmission? A review Stone CM, Witt AB, Walsh GC, Foster WA, Murphy ST Parasit Vectors 01-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC5793375
doi:10.1186/s13071-018-2644-8
PMID:29391041
Medicinal Plants Used as Home Remedies: A Family Survey by First Year Medical Students Sewani-Rusike CR, Mammen M Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med 23-Aug-2014
PMCID:PMC4202520
doi:10.4314/ajtcam.v11i5.11
PMID:25395707

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