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|accepted_name=Nopalea
|accepted_authority=Salm-Dyck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Hort. Dyck.
|place=1849, 63. 1850
|year=1850
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|common_names=Nopal;nopal chamacuero
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Nopalea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nopalea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Mexican Spanish nopal, name for pricklypear cactus and their edible stems
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 93, 95
|treatment_page=page 148
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, erect or branches sometimes pendent, branched, 1–6(–10) m; trunk absent or elliptic in cross section, becoming ± terete with age, originating from consecutive pads, main axis determinate and segmented. <b>Stem</b> segments flattened, narrowly linear to obovate or falcate, 6–30(–50) × 3–10(–15) cm, low to strongly tuberculate; areoles on both surfaces, commonly elevated, elliptic to subcircular, 3–6 × 2–5 mm; wool tan to white. <b>Spines</b> absent or 1–3(–12) per areole, stout to hairlike, with epidermis intact, not sheathed. <b>Glochids</b> scattered in areole to densely arranged in tuft at adaxial margin, yellow, brown, or red-brown. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, radially symmetric, 3–7(–10) cm; tepals erect; inner tepals closely appressed against numerous, slender filaments; filaments and style much exceeding perianth, pink to red or scarlet; fresh stigma lobes light green, aging pink; nectar chamber covered by extended proximal thickening of style. <b>Pollen</b> yellow to pink, 12-porate, with very fine punctae and spinulae, cohesive, sticky. <b>Fruits</b> red or sometimes aging purplish, cylindric or ellipsoid (circular in cross section), 15–50 × 20–40 mm, juicy, often tuberculate, spineless or spiny, with very deep umbilicus. <b>Seeds</b> grayish or tan to brownish, flattened, notched at hilum, 3–5.5 mm diam., smooth to lumpy, covered by bony funicular envelope, glabrous or slightly hairy; girdle protruding to 1.5 mm. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Escapes in Fla.;Mexico;Central America (Panama);West Indies;introduced and cultivated in subtropical and tropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 8 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Plants of <i>Nopalea</i> are pollinated by hummingbirds, and their winter flowering coincides with hummingbird migration. The stems and flowers are edible and used as forage. The plants are used medicinally as a tea to relieve kidney-stone pain and as a poultice on wounds. They are also used as hedges and living fences.</p>
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name=Nopalea
|author=Donald J. Pinkava
|authority=Salm-Dyck
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cactaceae
|distribution=Escapes in Fla.;Mexico;Central America (Panama);West Indies;introduced and cultivated in subtropical and tropical regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact. Hort. Dyck.
|publication year=1850
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Nopalea
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