Texas prickly pear
Opuntia lindheimeri
Summary 7
Opuntia lindheimeri is a cactus which is treated by some botanists as a species separate and distinct from O. engelmannii. Britton and Rose also considered that O. lindheimeri is a stand-alone species as did Engelmann who described it in 1850. The point is not settled, and other botanists accept O. lindheimeri as a variety of O. engelmannii. Whatever their taxonomic relationship, the plants are easily distinguished when grown side-by-side and do not gener
Taxonomy 8
The question of whether Opuntia lindheimeri should be treated as a full species or as a segregate of the closely related Opuntia engelmannii remains unsettled in the scientific community. Some treatments such as the early 20th century landmark monograph The Cactaceae consider is a segregated species, while others such as the Flora of North America confer it only variety status.
O. lindheimeri was first described as a species in 1850 by George Engelmann.
Detail of flower
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