familyCactaceae
subfamilyCactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
genusCylindropuntia
speciesCylindropuntia acanthocarpa
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa
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Shrubs or small trees, with few branches, usually at acute angles. Stem segments green, 6–17.5 cm; tubercles broad, rounded, oval, 1.5–2.2 cm. Spines 15–25 per areole, brown, aging gray, not baggy sheathed; major 5–7 abaxial spines deflexed, subparallel. Flowers: inner tepals yellow-green, sometimes reddish orange tinged. Fruits densely spiny; areoles 16–26.
Phenology: Flowering spring (May).
Habitat: Mojave Desert, edges of juniper woodlands, rocky slopes
Elevation: 1100-1200 m
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subparallel +
major +
ascending-divergent +
major +
inconspicuous +
small +
acute +
yellow +
cushionlike +
arillate +
elliptic +
bristlelike +
absent +
longest +
few +
longest +
sessile +
symmetric +
proliferating +
arising +
large +
funicular +
osseous +
separating +
intact +
deciduous +
pistillate +
symmetric +
arranged +
diurnal +
abscising +
bisexual +
adnate +
epigynous +
drying +
indehiscent +
tuberculate +
funicular +
absent +
dense +
apiculate-emarginate +
spatulate +
sessile +
alternate +
deciduous +
absent +
vestigial +
succulent +
tuberculate +
fluted;spheric;depressed-spheric or club-shaped +
tinged color +
specialized +
sepal-like +
true +
surrounding +
sunken +
abscising +
epigynous +
compound +
parietal +
3;14 +
not reticulate +
spinulo-punctate +
coalescent +
in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC, +
1935 +
vertical +
3;2;2;30 +
minute +
diffuse +
tuberlike +
deep +
adjacent +
developing +
0.4mm;12mm +
absent +
glabrous +
1;400 +
warped;squarish;angular +
persistent +
detachable +
tight-fitting +
Illustrated +
not sheathed +
barbed +
pliable +
aging +
absent +
conspicuous +
roughened +
flattened +
50;1500 +
decurrent +
green +
attached +
dislodged +
glabrous +
tuberculate +
segmented +
1;3;14 +
absent +
adventitious +
tuberlike +
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa +
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa +
variety +
5;50 +
distinct +
absent +
prominent +
broad +
shallow +
single +
protruding +
enlarged +
branched +
terrestrial;epiphytic or epipetric +
small +
aging +
feltlike +