Plant Details

Accepted name:: Opuntia humifusa (Raf.) Raf. [Cactaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
pricklypear	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 21 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cactus humifusus Raf. Ann. Nat. 1: 15 (1820).
Cactus italicus Ten. Index Seminum (NAP, Neapolitano) 1829: 15 (1829).
Opuntia allairei Griffiths Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 20: 83 (1909).
Opuntia arkansana Engelm. ex Hirscht Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 8: 115 (1898), nom. nud.
Opuntia calcicola Wherry J. Washington Acad. Sci. 16: 12 (1926).
Opuntia carolina J.Forbes J. Hort. Tour Germany: 160 (1837), nom. nud.
Opuntia compressa var. allairei (Griffiths) D.Weniger Cacti S. W.: 207 (1970).
Opuntia compressa var. humifusa (Raf.) D.Weniger Cacti S. W.: 202 (1970).
Opuntia fuscoatra Engelm. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 297 (1856).
Opuntia humifusa f. jeollaensis E.J.Kim & S.S.Whang Korean J. Pl. Taxon. 44: 185 (2014).
Opuntia humifusa var. parva A.Heller Cat. N. Amer. Pl., ed. 2: 8 (1900).
Opuntia intermedia A.Gray Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 206 (1850), nom. illeg.
Opuntia intermedia Salm-Dyck Hort. Dyck.: 364 (1834).
Opuntia intermedia var. prostrata Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 2: 69 (1849).
Opuntia italica (Ten.) Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 149 (1837).
Opuntia prostrata Monv. & Lem. ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cakteenk.: 478 (1846).
Opuntia rafinesquei var. parva F.Haage & E.Schmidt Verz. Blumenzeitung 1915: 29 (1915).
Opuntia rafinesquiana Urlandt Neubert's Deutsch. Gart.-Mag. 40: 156 (1887).
Opuntia turbinata Small Man. S.E. Fl.: 910 (1933).
Opuntia vulgaris var. major Salm-Dyck Observ. Bot. Horto Dyck. 3: 9 (1822).
Opuntia vulgaris var. media Salm-Dyck Observ. Bot. Horto Dyck. 3: 9 (1822).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Opuntia humifusa	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998)
Opuntia humifusa (Raf.) Raf.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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