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|accepted_name=Cylindropuntia ganderi
|accepted_authority=(C. B. Wolf) Rebman & Pinkava
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci.
|place=33: 150. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|common_names=Gander cholla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia acanthocarpa subsp. ganderi
|authority=C. B. Wolf
|publication_title=Occas. Pap. Rancho Santa Ana Bot. Gard.
|publication_place=2: 75, fig. 2 0. 1938
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia acanthocarpa var. ganderi
|authority=(C. B. Wolf) L. D. Benson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia ganderi
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Cylindropuntia;Cylindropuntia ganderi
|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 ganderi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 104
|treatment_page=page 115
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> ascending, with strict branches, 0.5–1.5 m. <b>Stem</b> segments firmly attached, green, (5–)10–26 × (1.7–)2.5–4.5 cm; tubercles prominent, narrowly elliptic to oval, often subribbed, (0.9–)1.3–2.6 cm; areoles elliptic to obdeltate, 4–7 × 2.5–5 mm; wool yellowish tan, aging gray. <b>Spines</b> 11–18(–28) per areole, at most areoles, moderately to wholly obscuring stems, spreading or erect, whitish, pale yellow to pinkish tan to reddish, aging brown or black, terete or abaxial spines basally flattened, grading in length, the longest porrect to reflexed, 2–2.5(–3.5) cm, with 0–6 bristlelike spines at areole margins; sheaths slightly baggy, whitish becoming yellow to golden apically. <b>Glochids</b> in thin adaxial crescent, yellow or tan to rusty, 0.5–6 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals greenish yellow, often with tips reddish abaxially, spatulate, 22–30 mm, apiculate to emarginate-apiculate; filaments yellow-green to green; anthers yellow to orange-yellow; style cream to yellow, sometimes basally greenish; stigma lobes greenish cream, cream or yellow. <b>Fruits</b> yellowish, drying tan, globose, tuberculate, budlike with spines similar to those of stem segments but slightly shorter, often reflexed; proximal tubercles slightly elongated if fruits fertile; umbilicus 4–5 mm deep; areoles 22–32(–40). <b>Seeds</b> pale yellow, angular-suborbicular, flattened to slightly warped, 4.5–6 × 4.5–5.7 mm, sides with 3–5 depressions; girdle smooth, not protruding. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May).
|habitat=Desert alluvial flats, bajadas, sandy, gravelly to rocky substrates
|elevation=100-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p>In the north part of its range, <i>Cylindropuntia ganderi</i> intergrades with <i>C. californica </i>var.<i> parkeri</i>.</p>
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name=Cylindropuntia ganderi
|author=
|authority=(C. B. Wolf) Rebman & Pinkava
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Opuntia acanthocarpa var. ganderi;Opuntia ganderi
|basionyms=Opuntia acanthocarpa subsp. ganderi
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May).
|habitat=Desert alluvial flats, bajadas, sandy, gravelly to rocky substrates
|elevation=100-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci.
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Cylindropuntia
|species=Cylindropuntia ganderi
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