Family:
Cactaceae Juss.
Genus:
Opuntia Mill.
Species:
Opuntia galapageia Hensl.

Opuntia galapageia var. insularis (A.Stewart) Backeb.

This variety is accepted, and its native range is Galápagos (Fernandina, Isabela).

Native to:

Galápagos

Opuntia galapageia var. insularis (A.Stewart) Backeb. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Howell [9516], Ecuador Opuntia insularis K000100737 No
Howell [9626], Ecuador Opuntia insularis K000100738 No

First published in Cactac.: Handb. Kakteenk. 1: 561 (1958)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0