Salmonopuntia salmiana(Pfeiff.) P.V.Heath

WFO wfo-0000439189 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-03-18 / obs. 6619640
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by Lucas Rubio
fig. b Lucas Rubio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104154193
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66980012
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. d aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66979774
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. e Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57175835
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. f Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2651368
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. g Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57175846
Salmonopuntia salmiana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. h aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66980028

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Salmonopuntia salmiana is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Paraguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaParaguay
Native distribution of Salmonopuntia salmiana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Paraguay PAR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 22 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.

  • Austrocylindropuntia albiflora (K.Schum.) Backeb.
  • Austrocylindropuntia ipatiana (Cárdenas) Backeb.
  • Austrocylindropuntia salmiana (J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) Backeb.
  • Austrocylindropuntia salmiana var. albiflora (K.Schum.) Backeb.
  • Austrocylindropuntia salmiana var. spegazzinii (F.A.C.Weber) Backeb.
  • Austrocylindropuntia spegazzinii (F.A.C.Weber) Backeb.
  • Cylindropuntia salmiana (J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) F.M.Knuth
  • Cylindropuntia spegazzinii (F.A.C.Weber) Backeb.
  • Opuntia albiflora K.Schum.
  • Opuntia floribunda Lem.
  • Opuntia ipatiana Cárdenas
  • Opuntia mucheri Starm.
  • Opuntia salmiana J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.
  • Opuntia salmiana var. albiflora (K.Schum.) G.D.Rowley
  • Opuntia salmiana var. spegazzinii (F.A.C.Weber) G.D.Rowley
  • Opuntia spegazzinii F.A.C.Weber
  • Opuntia wagneri F.A.C.Weber
  • Platyopuntia salmiana (J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) F.Ritter
  • Salmiopuntia salmiana (J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) Guiggi
  • Salmonopuntia salmiana f. alba P.V.Heath
  • Salmonopuntia salmiana f. glauca P.V.Heath
  • Salmonopuntia salmiana f. rosea P.V.Heath

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. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.