Association Plants 2–4 m, pseudostem well-developed. Leaves 3–5 per shoot, green, longest blade 75–150 × 18–33 cm. Inflorescences erect, to 45 cm; cincinnal bracts
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white to pale-pink, oblong, obtuse, 5–12 × 2–3 mm, vein dark-pink or brown; longest stamens equaling style. Capsules 5–7 mm, transversely wrinkled. Seeds 3–4
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mm; longest spines 8-24 mm; stem segments easily detached; widespread Opuntia fragilis 8 Depressed spines at base of areoles 5-7, 4-20 mm; longest spines
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internode 6–34 mm; proximal bracts 6–49 mm, awn 7–46 mm; spikes (2–) 3–5, longest ones 2–5, usually gynecandrous; proximal spikes with 1–2 staminate and (5–)
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narrowly spatulate, widest in distal 1/3, (10–) 15–20 × 3–5 mm, ± plane; longest distal capitular leaves 1.3–2 times head heights, obtuse. Heads in glomerules
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(1–) 2–10, ascending to ± prostrate (sometimes erect). Capitular leaves: longest mostly 8–15 mm, lengths 1.5–4 times widths. Heads ± spheric, largest 6–9
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rachis but persistent, segment margins entire to crenate; proximal pinnae longest, petiolulate, usually ± inequilateral with pinnules on basiscopic side longer
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spreading, flattened basally, the longest to 3.5 cm; adaxial spines erect or spreading, terete to subterete, longest to 2.5 cm; sheaths uniformly whitish
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4–7.4 (–9.8) cm, longest internode between distal lateral spikes 0.9–7.4 (–9.8) cm; peduncle of terminal spike 0.3–3.2 (–6.8) cm, longest peduncle per plant
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expanded) distally. Involucres broadly obconic to campanulate. Phyllaries: longest 10–18 mm (surpassed by florets); outer distally tomentulose-puberulent in
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2–1.5 cm; 2d order rays present in robust plants, to 5 mm; bracts 2–3, longest erect, others spreading, 1–20 cm × 1.5–3 mm. Spikelets 3–12, narrowly ellipsoid
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crenulate, ciliate; proximal pinnae not reduced, sometimes basal pair much the longest, sessile to petiolulate, equilateral or inequilateral with basiscopic side
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mm; blades broadly oblanceolate to obovate, arachnoid-sericeous. Heads: longest 3.6–4.5 mm. Pistillate paleae 3–4.5 mm. Cypselae mostly 1.3–1.7 mm. Phenology:
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prickly, surface clearly visible, prickles simple, well spaced, subequal, longest 5-7 mm. Seeds 1.5-2 mm. Generated Map Legacy Map Ariz., Calif., Utah Subspecies
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abaxial (shortest) radial spine 6–20 × 0.3–0.6 mm; adaxial and lateral (longest) radial spines 9–37 mm; central spines 1–3 (–4) per areole (usually absent
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spines 9–18 per areole, longest spines 12–30 mm; adaxial (bladelike) spines 16–75 (–100) × 1.5 mm; central spines (1–) 4, longest spines terete to sharply
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central spine flattened), longest spines 12–38 mm; radial spines 10–19 per areole, straight or slightly curved toward stem, longest spines 11–32 mm; central
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mm, heights 0.5–0.7 or 2–2.4 times diams. Pistillate paleae imbricate, longest 2.5–4 mm. Staminate paleae ± 3, apices erect to somewhat spreading, ± plane
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mm, heights 0.5–0.8 times diams. Pistillate paleae 4–7 (–8) in 1 series, longest 2–4 mm; wings obscure, withering, lateral, ± erect, narrowly oblanceolate
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distal areoles white to brown to black (but not rich red-brown) or absent; longest central abaxial spine commonly twisted or curved, completely chalky white
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