• Family : CACTACEAE
  (Cactus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NAG PHANI FAMILY / CACTUS FAMILY (नागफणी फैमिली / कैक्टस फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CACTACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Opuntia ramosissima Engelm.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cylindropuntia ramosissima (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth
• Vernacular name : Uruttai Chapathikalli, Velikalli (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Plains
• Comments / notes : Grown as live fence. Foothills of southern Eastern Ghats
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Erode district
• Native : Tropical America
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cylindropuntia ramosissima. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description