Opuntia aurea E.M.Baxter in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 5(6): 489–490. 1933 sec. Parfitt & Gibson 2003
- ≡Opuntia basilaris var. aurea (E.M.Baxter) W.T.Marshall in Marshall & Bock, Cactaceae: 65. 1941 syn. sec. Parfitt & Gibson 2003
- ≡Opuntia lubrica var. aurea (E.M.Baxter) Backeb., Cactaceae 1: 585. 1958 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
- ≡Opuntia erinacea var. aurea (E.M.Baxter) S.L.Welsh in Great Basin Naturalist 46(2): 255. 1986 syn. sec. Parfitt & Gibson 2003