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Opuntieae
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Opuntieae

Opuntioideae is a subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae. It contains 15 genera divided into five tribes. The subfamily encompasses roughly 220–250 species, and is geographically distributed throughout the New World from Canada, to Argentina. Members of this subfamily have diverse habits, including small geophytes, hemispherical cushions, shrubs, trees, and columnar cacti consisting of indeterminate branches or determinate terete or spherical segments.

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8 branches of this tribe, most-observed first

Prickly Pears

genusOpuntia

Brasiliopuntia

genusBrasiliopuntia

Consolea

genusConsolea

Airampoa

genusAirampoa

Tacinga

genusTacinga

Miqueliopuntia

genusMiqueliopuntia

Salmonopuntia

genusSalmonopuntia

× Opulea

genushybrid× Opulea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 871622.