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Common Prickly Pear Opuntia caracassana

Photo: Gerard van Buurt

Classification

Cactaceae [family]
Opuntia [genus] (11)
caracassana [species]

Classification

Cactaceae [family]
Opuntia [genus] (11)
caracassana [species]

Presence

Recorded on
  • Aruba
  • Bonaire
  • Curaçao
  • Presence status
  • Indigenous (1) - Aruba
  • Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
  • Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
  • Distribution description Native to southern America.

    Publications

    • Amelunxen, C.P. 1931. De cactusflora van Curaçao. 24. J.W.F. Sluijter.
    • Debrot, A.O. 2006. Preliminary checklist of extant and fossil endemic taxa of the ABC-Islands, Leeward Antilles. 29pp.
    • Freitas, J.A. de, Nijhof, B.S.J., Rojer, A.C., Debrot, A.O. 2005. Landscape ecological vegetation map of the island of bonaire (southern caribbean). 64. Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity Foundation, Curaçao Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands.
    • Howard, R.A. 1989. Dicotyledoneae - Part 2. In: Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands. 5: 604. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
    • Proosdij, A.S.J. van 2012. Arnoldo's Zakflora: Wat in het wild groeit en bloeit op Aruba, Bonaire en Curaçao. 318 pp. Walburg Pers, Zutphen.
    • Stoffers, A.L. 1984. Cactaceae. Flora of the Netherlands Antilles 3: 143-158.