External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39623-2
- Publication
- The Genera of North American Plants. Philadelphia, USA
- Collation
- 1: 296
- Date of Publication
- 14 Jul 1818
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cactaceae
Type Information
- Type Herbaria
- neotype POM
- Distribution Of Types
- Richardson, Stark County (North Dakota, North-Central U.S.A., Northern America)
Remarks
[Gandhi; NT]
Links
- Nomenclatural link
- Terecaulis fragilis (Nutt.) F.Berge, Buch Welt 91 (1842).
- Nomenclatural link
- Tunas fragilis (Nutt.) Nieuwl. & Lunell, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 479 (1916).
- Nomenclatural link
- Opuntia fragilis (Nutt.) Haw., Suppl. Pl. Succ. 82 (1819).
- Same citation as
- Cactus fragilis Nutt., Gen. N. Amer. Pl. [Nuttall]. 1: 296 (1818).