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