Opuntia microdasys subsp. rufida (Engelm.) U. Guzmán & Mandujano in Cactaceae Syst. Init. 16: 18. 2003 sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Opuntia microdasys var. rufida (Engelm.) K. Schum., Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 706. 1898 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Opuntia lubrica Griffiths in Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 21: 169. 1910 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Opuntia herrfeldtii Kupper in Monatsschr. Deutsch. Kakteen-Ges. 2: 212. 1930 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Opuntia rufida var. tortiflora M.S. Anthony in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 240. 1956 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003