Nopal

Nopal M.Ocampo (1844)

🌵 Author(s)	Melchor Ocampo
🌵 Published in	Periódico de la Sociedad Filoiátrica de México 1: 68, 71-72 (1844)
🌵 Type	not cited

Etymology

Spanish nopal ‘prickly pear (Opuntia sp.)’. Ocampo segregated this genus from Opuntia. His tribe Nopaleae (“Nopaleas”) comprised the genera Nopal, Opuntia and Pereskia. Compare Nopalea.