External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:175411-2
- Species Name
- Opuntia phaeacantha Engelm., Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts n.s., 4: 51 (1849).
- Publication
- Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston, MA
- Collation
- 3: 293
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cactaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- C.Wright s.n.
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype MO
- Distribution Of Types
- sandhills in the Rio Grande bottoms, El Paso, Texas (South-Central U.S.A., Northern America)