Cumulopuntia echinacea

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Opuntioideae
Tribus: Tephrocacteae
Genus: Cumulopuntia
Species:

Cumulopuntia echinacea (F.Ritter) F.Ritter, Kakteen Südamerika 3: 884. (1980)
Note: POWO (2025) accepts this taxon as Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. echinacea, but CACO (2025) retain it as a segregate species.

• Basionym
  • Tephrocactus echinaceus F.Ritter, Taxon 13(4): 145. (1964)
• Homotypic
  • Opuntia echinacea (F.Ritter) A.E.Hoffm., Cact. Fl. Silvestre Chile: 248. (1989)
  • Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. echinacea (F.Ritter) D.R.Hunt, Cactaceae Syst. Init. 14: 12. (2002)
  • Maihueniopsis boliviana subsp. echinacea (F.Ritter) Faúndez & R.Kiesling , Darwiniana 45: 237. (2007)

needs protologue

• Hunt, D. 2016. CITES Cactaceae Checklist, ed. 3: 1–174. PDF. Reference page. 
• Korotkova, N., Aquino, D., Arias, S., Eggli, U., Franck, A. , Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Guerrero, P.C., Hernández, H.M., Kohlbecker, A., Köhler, M., Luther, K., Majure, L.C., Müller, A., Metzing, D., Nyffeler, R., Sánchez, D., Schlumpberger, B. & Berendsohn, W.G. 2021. Cactaceae at Caryophyllales. org–a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. Willdenowia 51(2): 251–270. DOI: 10.3372/wi.51.51208 Reference page. 

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Cumulopuntia echinacea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 Jan 18. Reference page.  as Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. echinacea
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Cumulopuntia echinacea. Published online. Accessed: Jan 18 2022. Reference page.
• Korotkova, N. et al. 2025. Cumulopuntia echinacea in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2025 Jan. 18. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Cumulopuntia echinacea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 18 Jan 2022. Reference page.