Opuntia austrina

Opuntia austrina Small (1903)

🌵 Author(s)	John Kunkel Small
🌵 Published in	Fl. S.E. U.S. [Small]. 816, 1335 (1903)

Etymology

Latin austrīnus ‘southern’. For the occurrence in “southern peninsular Florida and the Keys” (Small). The rather unusual epithet austrinus whas presumably chosen to avoid homonymy with Opuntia australis (= Pterocactus australis) (Latin austrālis ‘southern’).