Miller, P. (1768), The Gardeners Dictionary Edn. 8: no. 6 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cactus cochenillifer L. legitimate

Maiden, J.H. (2 October 1914), The Prickly Pears of interest to Australians. 12. - The Cochineal Cactus. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 25: 883 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck legitimate

• Text: "In New South Wales I have only observed it in gardens, probably received from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, originally."

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Cactaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 67 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck legitimate

• Text: "The species marked with a dagger are keyed out here but will not be described further in the text. Most are old records not supported by herbarium specimens. Several may have been eradicated. Opuntia cochenillifera (L.) Miller has been reported from central Qld (J. Mann, Cacti naturalised in Australia and their control 32 (1970), as Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck)."

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Opuntia cochinelifera Mill. orth. var. orthographic variant: Opuntia cochinellifera I.Telford orth. var. orthographic variant: Opuntia cochenill Jessup orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cactus cochenillifer L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck legitimate

• APC Comment: An American taxon recorded by J. Mann, Cacti Naturalised in Australia and their Control 32 (1970), but not known to be established in Australia.

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