Opuntia recurvospina Griffiths
date: label: Collection Date
content: Sep 1911
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 76 - Southwestern U.S.A.
label: Collector
content: David Griffiths
notes: label: Notes
content: One of 4 sheets (USNH 2576140 A, 2576141 A, 2576142 A, 2576143 A) annotated as "holotype coll." [D. Nicolson script, unsigned & undated) but without any original labeling; labeled as "TYPE" by Lyman Benson (1970) but probably lectotype at best. Protologue, "The type was collected near Pantano, Arizona, in September, 1911, under my inventory number 10,456." (A fifth US sheet, USNH 3053707, not labeled as type by Benson and may or may not be a part of this series.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pima, Arizona, United States, North America
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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 recurvospina Griffiths
label: Published Name
content: Opuntia phaeacantha var. major Engelm.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 00117034
label: Other Numbers
content: fiche number : 0583/D08
label: Other Numbers
content: Multi-sheeted specimen : Sheet 03 of 04
label: USNM Number
content: 2576142A
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Griffiths, D. 1916. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29 : 12.
label: Type Status
content: Type collection
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Dicotyledonae Caryophyllales Cactaceae Opuntioideae