View source for Cylindropuntia californica

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cylindropuntia californica
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC,
|place=125. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|common_names=California cholla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cereus californicus
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1: 555. 1840
}} {{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia californica
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Coville
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1899
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Cylindropuntia;Cylindropuntia californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cylindropuntia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cylindropuntia californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 103, 104
|treatment_page=page 113
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> decumbent to erect, essentially trunkless, 0.3–2.5 m. <b>Stem</b> segments green to purplish green, 6–30 × 1.5–2.5 cm; tubercles prominent, oval to elongate-elliptic, 0.7–3 cm, sometimes appearing as ribs; areoles elliptic, 4.5–5 × 3–3.5 mm; wool tan, aging dark gray. <b>Spines</b> (0–)7–13(–20) per areole, at most areoles, rarely obscuring stems, yellow to orange-brown with yellow tips, aging dark gray, subequal or 1–6(–7) much longer to 3 cm; sheaths whitish or gold to brown, moderately loose. <b>Glochids</b> yellow-tan to red-brown in dense adaxial crescent and scattered, stouter ones at basal margins. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals yellow to greenish yellow; outer ones tipped red, 15–30 mm; filaments green or yellow; anthers yellow; style light green or cream-white (rarely pinkish) apically; stigma lobes cream-white to yellow. <b>Fruits</b> green to yellowish, drying gray-tan, short top-shaped to subspheric, 15–32 × 13–26 mm, leathery-dry, tuberculate, few spined or spineless; proximal tubercles longest; umbilicus deep; rim slightly flanged; areoles 13–30. <b>Seeds</b> tan, squarish to angular in outline, warped, (4–)5–7 × 4–5 mm, sides with 2–4 deep depressions; girdle smooth.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 4 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs, suberect to decumbent; stem tubercles oval, shorter, usually 0.7-1.5 cm; spines/areole usually subequal
|[[Cylindropuntia californica var. californ|Cylindropuntia californica var. californ]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs, suberect to erect; stem tubercles elliptic, longer, usually 1.5-3 cm; spines/areole commonly with 1(-3) central spines much longer
|[[Cylindropuntia californica var. parkeri|Cylindropuntia californica var. parkeri]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cylindropuntia californica
|author=
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cereus californicus;Opuntia californica
|family=Cactaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC,
|publication year=1935
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Cylindropuntia
|species=Cylindropuntia californica
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