Family: Cactaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
Possibly endemic to the Turks and Caicos Islands (see Comments below).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
Comments:
Presumably a hybrid of
Opuntia stricta var.
dillenii and
Consolea nashii, which also occurs in Cuba (the Flora of the West Indies does not treat
Condolea nashi var.
gibarensis from Cuba as distinct). Hunt (2006) placed
Consolea nashii into synonymy under
Consolea macracantha sensu lato, and cited this name also for plants from the Virgin Islands and Antigua. These latter plants would be hybrids between
Opuntia stricta var.
dillenii and
Consolea rubescens (see also Howard 1989), but
Opuntia x lucayana could occur in Cuba.
For a specimen image, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms:
Opuntia darrahiana?
