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.
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, October 11). Nopal. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/nopal