Opuntia lindheimeri

Opuntia lindheimeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Opuntia
Species: O. lindheimeri
Binomial name
Opuntia lindheimeri
Engelm.

Opuntia lindheimeri is s 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.[1] 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 generally overlap in their natural ranges.

Almost any large Opuntia in TX, NM, or AZ has probably been misidentified or misunderstood over the years, and O. lindheimeri is no exception.

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