Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

In Andersson (1855) as Opuntia galapageja. Christophersen (1932) follows Britton & Rose (1919) in assigning all Galapagos Opuntia specimens to this species.

Origin: Endemic

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