Opuntia camanchica

Opuntia camanchica Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow (1856)

🌵 Author(s)	George Engelmann John Milton Bigelow
🌵 Published in	Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 293 (1856)

Etymology

For the occurrence on the Comanche Plains (“Camanche plains”) on the Llano Estacado near the Upper Canadian River, Texas or New Mexico. The epithet is also spelled comanchica.