Cylindropuntia bigelovii
Cylindropuntia kleiniae
teddy-bear cholla
candle cholla, Klein cholla, Klein's pencil cactus, tasajillo
(0–)1–2(–4) per areole, at most areoles, straight to slightly arched, commonly deflexed, not obscuring stem, yellow to gray, tipped yellow, acicular, the longest 1–3 cm.
in adaxial tuft, yellow, 0.5–2.5 mm.
inner tepals greenish basally to reddish bronze, tinged magenta apically, spatulate-apiculate, 15–25 mm;
filaments greenish basally to bronze distally;
anthers yellow;
style greenish bronze;
stigma lobes cream.
green becoming red, obovoid to cylindric, 13–34 × 10–20 mm, fleshy, low tuberculate to smooth, spineless;
tubercles subequal;
umbilicus 3–6 mm deep;
areoles 16–28.
tan, squarish to oval, 4–5 × 3.5–4 mm, warped, sides smooth to lumpy;
girdle broad, low-ridged.
= 44.
Cylindropuntia bigelovii
Cylindropuntia kleiniae
Varieties 2 (1 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
In western Texas and northern Mexico, Cylindropuntia kleiniae forms hybrids with C. leptocaulis (= C. ×antoniae P. V. Heath) that have varying degrees of morphologic intermediacy and chromosome number of 2n = 33. In northern Mexico, C. kleiniae hybridizes with C. imbricata var. imbricata. Cylindropuntia kleiniae itself may be of hybrid origin.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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