Plant Details

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

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bahudugdhika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bahushala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bà wáng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bà wáng shù	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cactus	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
cappatigalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cappatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cappatti-k-kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cappattukkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chapal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chappate kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chappatigalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dabaagalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dabbagalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dabbu galli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dabbugalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dabgalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dildo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dondavrikshaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
elephantear pricklypear	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
eltham indian-fig	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fèng wěi 竻	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
geeldoringturksvy	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gula	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
guān yīn zhǎng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
haththathoira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
huǒ zhǎng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kaktus	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kallimullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandarohaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandashakha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanthaari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
katu pathok	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
krishnakhara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kubshadruma	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lǎo yā shé	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
machhagalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mahavriksha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
manjarnagadali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullu-galli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullugalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullukkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagadaali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagadele kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagajemmudu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagamullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagaphana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagaphani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
naagathaali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naagphani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
nag phan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nag-nival	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nag-phana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naga-dali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naga-mulla	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagadali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagadru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagajamudu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagajemadu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagajemmadu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagajemudu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagakkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagamalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagamullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagaphana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagarkali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagatali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagathali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
nagphana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagphani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagtali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nakatali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
netrari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nistrinshapatrika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
niwdung	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
opúntia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
paalakalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paapaas kathhale	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paapaasi kathhaale	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paapaasu kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
padyaanivadunga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palagaikkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palakai-kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palakakalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palakakkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palakalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palma-de-espinho	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
palmatória	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
papasakalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papasalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papasikalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papaskalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papaskatalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papaskattali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papasukalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papasukattale	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pappaskalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pattanadugalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
phadagalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
phalisabar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
phani-manasa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
phaninishdunga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pipestem prickly-pear	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pokok sesudu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
prickly pear	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
prickly pear cactus	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pypsteelturksvy	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
samantadugdha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
samar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sappathikalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sappathikkalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sappatthi kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sappattikalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sappattu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sapthapano	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shakhakanta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shihunda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shivaraama kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shivaram-kalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shén xiān zhǎng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sihunda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sinhatunda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sivaramakalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sivaramukalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
slipperthorn	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
snuha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
snuhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
snuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
snusha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
spiny pest-pear	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
spiny prickly-pear	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sudha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sweet prickly-pear	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tuna	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
vajra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vajradruma	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vajrakantaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vidara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vidara-vishvasaraka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vilaithi nevarung	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
visvasaraka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
xian ren zhang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
xianrenzhang	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
xiān rén bā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xiān rén zhǎng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zuqam	Other	Ethnomed. Uses of Edible Wild Fruits, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
仙人巴	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
仙人掌	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
仙掌子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
凤尾竻	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
火掌	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
玉芙蓉	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
神仙掌	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
神仙掌花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
老鸦舌	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
观音掌	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
霸王	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
霸王樹	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Stem		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Fruits, Young cladodes		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
rhizome, stem		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Fruit		Ethnomed. Uses of Edible Wild Fruits, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
leaves, fruit, flower	dried flower, fresh flower	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cactus dillenii Ker Gawl. Bot. Reg. 3: t. 255 (1818).
Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ.: 79 (1819).
Opuntia stricta var. dillenii (Ker Gawl.) L.D.Benson Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 126 (1969).
Cactus horridus Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 348 (1796), nom. superfl.
Cactus opuntia var. tuna (L.) DC. Pl. Hist. Succ.: t. 138C (1804).
Cactus tuna L. Sp. Pl.: 468 (1753).
Opuntia dillenii var. minor Salm-Dyck Hort. Dyck.: 185 (1834).
Opuntia dillenii var. orbiculata Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 2: 67 (1849).
Opuntia maritima Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 247 (1830).
Opuntia melanosperma Svenson Amer. J. Bot. 33: 471 (1946).
Opuntia zebrina Small J. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 35 (1919).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cactus dillenii Ker-Gaw.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Opuntia dilleni	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Opuntia dillenii	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Opuntia dillenii (Ker-Gaw.) Haw.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Opuntia dillenii (Ker-Gawl.) Haw.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Opuntia dillenii Haw.	Ethnomed. Uses of Edible Wild Fruits, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
Opuntia dillenii Haworth	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Opuntia dillenii Ker Gawl.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. var. dillenii (Ker Gawl.) L. D. Benson	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. var. dillenii (Ker Gawl.) L.D. Benson	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. var. dillenii (Ker-Gawl.) Benson	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Opuntia tuna (L.) Mill.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Opuntia tuna (L.) Miller	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Opuntia tuna Mill.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Opuntia tuna Miller	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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