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Opuntia
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Sonoran Desert, flats, hills, sandy to rocky soils; 400-700m.
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Cylindropuntia munzii hybridizes with C. echinocarpa forming a shrub to 1.5 m, with shorter tubercles and baggy-sheathed spines obscuring the stem and bearing fruits with long glochids but no spines. The chromosome number for the hybrid is 2n = 22.
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resinas
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AMÉRICA TROPICAL
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Comments: Opuntia munzii is considered to be a species by Kartesz (1994, 1999), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1993), and the California Natural Diversity Database, although it is considered a hybrid in new Jepson manual. These plants are apparently a stabilized, self-maintaining population of hybrid origin. O. munzii appears capable of hybridizing with O. echinocarpa and with O. cholla, although it apparently does so realtively infrequently, as only one collection of each putative hybrid is known (J. Rebman pers. comm. 2009).
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Neotype for Opuntia spinulifera Salm-Dyck
Catalog Number: US 2790180
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. Scheinvar & C. Alvarez
Year Collected: 1974
Locality: Hidalgo, Mexico, North America
- Neotype: Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, J. F. 1834. Hort. Dyckensis. 364.
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Flowering spring (Mar-May).
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Isotype for Opuntia heliabravoana Scheinvar
Catalog Number: US 2790181
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. Scheinvar & C. Alvarez
Year Collected: 1973
Locality: Hidalgo, Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Scheinvar, L. 1974. Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Mexico, ser. bot. 45 (1): 75.
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Persistence: PERENNIAL
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