| Name | Opuntia tenuispina Engelmann |
| Authorship | Engelmann |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Opuntia |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:137099-1 |
| Citation | 1856 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 294 |
| Holdings | 4 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Opuntia tenuispina Engelmann |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2), 2008 (2) |