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Updated 3/10/2013

Family Halimedaceae

HAWAII

Halimeda opuntia

Mokuleia, Oahu, 100 feet

 

Honaunau, Hawaii, 50 feet

 

Puako, Hawaii, 15 feet

 

Makai Pier, Oahu, 10 feet

 

Looe Key, FL, 20 feet

PRICKLY PEAR HALIMEDA

Twisted creeping plants of spade-shaped segments, trichotomus branching.  Uncommon in the main Hawaiian Islands.  Warm seas worldwide.  Opuntia is the genus name of the Prickly Pear Cactus or Panini.