Leuenbergeria portulacifolia (L.) Lodé in Cact.-Avent. Int. 97: 27. 2012 ["2013"]

is new combination for Cactus portulacifolius L., Sp. Pl.: 469-470. 1753

Lectotype (designated by Leuenberger, B. E. 19861): [illustration] "Opuntia arbor, spinosissima, foliis Portulacae cordatis," Plum. cat. p. 6. Specimen apparently lost. Linnaeus (Spec. pl. ed. 2, 671. 1762) refers to the illustration in Plumier, Pl. amer. fasc. (ed. Burmann, 1758) pl. 197, fig. 1, drawn from Plumier's collection

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1. Leuenberger, B. E. 1986: Pereskia (Cactaceae). – Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 41: 1-141