Cactaceae
Cylindropuntia

Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth

First published in Nye kaktusbog: 131 (1930)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Arizona to SW. Kansas and Mexico. It is a succulent shrub or tree and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

Introduced into:

Argentina Northeast, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, New South Wales, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Peru, Queensland, South Australia, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Victoria, Western Australia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Ackerfield, J. (2015). Flora of Colorado: 1-818. BRIT Press.
  • Allred, K.W. (2012). Flora Neomexicana, ed. 2, 1: 1-599. Range Science Herbarium, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
  • Aymerich, P. (2019). Notes sobre flora allòctona a Catalunya. II. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural 83: 3-21.
  • Cantero, J.J. & al. (2016). Novedades para la flora de la Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 51: 183-207.
  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 1-449. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 4: 1-559. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Gutiérrez, J. & Solano, E. (2014). Afinidades florísticas y fitogeográficas de la vegetación del municipio de San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, México. Acta Botanica Mexicana 107: 27-65. Instituto de Ecología A.C.
  • Larson, J., Reif, B., Nelson, B.E. & Hartman, R.L. (2014). Floristic studies in North Central New Mexico, U.S.A. the Sange de Cristo mountains. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 8: 271-303.
  • Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) in Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2012). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 3(2): 1-623. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Kew Species Profiles

  • Hunt, D., Taylor, N. & Charles, G. (2006). The New Cactus Lexicon Volume I. dh books, Milborne Port, Dorset, UK.
  • Moerman, D.E. (1998). Native American ethnobotany. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
  • Pinkava, D.J. (2001). Cylindropuntia in Flora of North America 4: 103–118. Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Prain, D. (1909). Opuntia imbricata. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 135: t. 8290.
  • The Plant List (2010). Cylindropuntia imbricata. (Accessed 11 June 2011).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (1984). Flora of Australia 4: 1-354. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • (2019). http://www.abcjournal.org/index.php/BothaliaABC/article/view/39/33. epublication.
  • Ackerfield, J. (2015). Flora of Colorado: 1-818. BRIT Press.
  • Aymerich, P. (2019). Notes sobre flora allòctona a Catalunya. II. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural 83: 3-21.
  • Cantero, J.J. & al. (2016). Novedades para la flora de la Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 51: 183-207.
  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 1-449. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 4: 1-559. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) in Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2012). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 3(2): 1-623. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
USA Opuntia imbricata 55796.000 No
Palmer [122], Mexico Opuntia imbricata K000062534 No
South Africa Opuntia imbricata K000100557 No
Bourgeau [264] Opuntia imbricata K000100695 No
Parry [281], Mexico Opuntia imbricata K000062535 No
Palmer [386], Mexico Opuntia imbricata K000062533 No
Loder [0] Opuntia imbricata K000100990 No
South Africa Opuntia imbricata K000100558 No
Palmer [377], Mexico Opuntia imbricata K000062532 No
Opuntia imbricata K000100989 No
Opuntia imbricata K000100991 No

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Kew Species Profiles

    • Kew Species Profiles
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0