Opuntia santa-rita(Griffiths & Hare) Rose

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WFO wfo-0001433339 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. a Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197713492
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. b Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179777505
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. c Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110956840
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. d Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108330888
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by Henggang Cui
fig. e Henggang Cui, CC0 1.0 / obs. 111080237
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. f CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60922787
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. g Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53956036
Opuntia santa-rita, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. h CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31467634

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Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Opuntia chlorotica var. santa-rita Griffiths & Hare
  • Opuntia chlorotica var. santarita Griffiths & Hare
  • Opuntia gosseliniana subsp. santa-rita (Griffiths & Hare) Guiggi
  • Opuntia gosseliniana var. santa-rita (Griffiths & Hare) L.D.Benson
  • Opuntia gosseliniana var. santarita (Griffiths & Hare) L.D.Benson
  • Opuntia santarita (Griffiths & Hare) Rose
  • Opuntia violacea var. santa-rita (Griffiths & Hare) L.D.Benson
  • Opuntia violacea var. santarita (Griffiths & Hare) L.D.Benson

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.