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Showing Opuntia leoglossa
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Type: "AUSTRALIA. Victoria, Riverina, Greta West, McLeans Road, 21 January 1994, Stajsic 1006 (holotype mounted in two separate labeled sheets—MEL2023597! and MEL2089030!—and one spirit collection—MEL2089026!; Isotypes at NSW395077!, and CANB481700!)."
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Etymology: "The epithet refers to the Latinization of the vernacular name “Lion’s Tongue”: leo, apocope of the word leonem (meaning lion, from Latin), and glossa (meaning tongue, from Greek)."