Other conspecific taxa:

• Opuntia stricta (0 accessions)
• Opuntia stricta var. stricta (0 accessions)

Autonyms (not in current use) and synonyms:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym)

• Basionym: Cactus dillenii Ker Gawl.
• (≡) Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.

Common names:

• dildo  (Source: Cact Fam) - English
• Eltham Indian-fig  (Source: Cact Fam) - English
• pipestem prickly-pear  (Source: F SAfr) - English
• spiny pest-pear  (Source: F Aust) - English
• spiny prickly-pear  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• sweet prickly-pear  (Source: Cact Fam) - English
• geeldoringturksvy  (Source: F SAfr) - Afrikaans
• pypsteelturksvy  (Source: F SAfr) - Afrikaans
• palma-de-espinho  (Source: Cact EBrazil) - Portuguese
• palmatória  (Source: Cact EBrazil) - Portuguese
• opúntia  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• xian ren zhang  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• CITES Appendix II:
• Human food:
• Materials:
• Medicines:
• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida (http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/main.asp?plantID=3595), Georgia, South Carolina]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, United States, [Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S.] Virgin Islands (British)
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands]
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Europe

• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Portugal, Spain

Southern America

• BRAZIL: Brazil

References:

1. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581. Note: = Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.
2. Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada
3. Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. 1978. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991 280.
4. Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
5. Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
6. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas
7. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
8. George, A. S., ed. 1980-. Flora of Australia.
9. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: Eritrea added in 2000
10. Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds Note: = Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.
11. Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. Note: = Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.
12. Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
13. Taylor, N. & D. Zappi. 2004. Cacti of eastern Brazil Note: = Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.
14. Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2019. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=310427. Accessed 12 December 2019.