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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Cactaceae
Opuntia lindheimeri var. linguiformis

Citation: L. Benson, Cactus & Succ. J. 41:125 (1969).

Synonymy: O, linguiformis Griffiths, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19:270 (1908).

Common name: None

Description:
Joints often continuing to extend at the apex, becoming 1 m long and oblong or lanceolate; spines 1-3 per areole, distributed irregularly or absent from some joints.

image of FSA1_Opuntia_lin_lin.jpg Opuntia lindheimeri var. linguiformis
Image source: fig. 189h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Graf (1963) Exotica 3:483.

Distribution:    Vic.   Native to Texas, U.S.A.

Flowering time: late spring — summer.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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