Opuntia cretochaeta Griffiths
date: label: Collection Date
content: 16 Jul 1913
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 79 - Mexico Northeast
label: Collector
content: David Griffiths
notes: label: Notes
content: This sheet (USNH 3053392) possibly the holotype (annotated with name by Griffiths); type supposedly deposited at US but unclear which (if either) of two US sheets, both made from cultivation on different dates, is the holotype.
label: Notes
content: Protologue, "this species was collected originally near Dublan, Mexico, August 31, 1906, under my inventory number 8465. It has been grown at Chico, California, as well as at Brownsville and San Antonio, Texas."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hidalgo, Mexico, North America - Neotropics
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content: Botany
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
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content: Type Register
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Opuntia cretochaeta Griffiths
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 00179216
label: USNM Number
content: 3053392
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Griffiths, D. 1916. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29 : 11.
label: Type Status
content: Possible type
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Dicotyledonae Caryophyllales Cactaceae Opuntioideae