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(Engelmann & J. M. Bigelow) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth

in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC, 124. 1935.

Common names: Whipple cholla
Basionym: Opuntia whipplei Engelmann & J. M. Bigelow
Synonyms: Cylindropuntia hualpaensis BackebergCylindropuntia whipplei var. enodis (Peebles) BackebergOpuntia whipplei var. enodis PeeblesOpuntia whipplei var. laevior Engelmann
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="tree position;tree orientation;tree architecture;tree growth form;tree atypical some measurement;tree some measurement;shrub position;shrub orientation;shrub architecture;shrub growth form;shrub atypical some measurement;shrub some measurement"><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, low to upright, sparingly to densely branched, some almost matlike in Arizona, 0.3–0.6 (–1.5) m;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="branchlet arrangement;branchlet arrangement;branchlet arrangement">branchlets whorled to subwhorled.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem segment fixation;stem segment coloration;stem segment atypical length;stem segment length;stem segment atypical width;stem segment width"><b>Stem </b>segments firmly attached, green, 3–9 (–15) × 0.5–1.5 (–2.2) cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="tubercle prominence;tubercle height or length or size;tubercle some measurement">tubercles prominent, short, 0.5–1 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="areole shape;areole shape;areole shape;areole length;areole width">areoles oval to obdeltate, 2–6 × 1.5–4 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="wool coloration;wool coloration;wool coloration;wool life cycle;wool coloration">wool pale-yellow to white, aging gray.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="spine atypical count;spine atypical count;spine count;spine arrangement;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine coloration;areole arrangement;kind count"><b>Spines </b>(1–) 3–8 (–10) spines per areole, in all but basalmost areoles, best developed toward apex, interlacing with spines of adjacent areoles, whitish or pale-yellow, pale redbrown, sometimes tipped yellow, of 2 kinds;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spine arrangement;spine size;spine shape;spine orientation;spine some measurement;central spine position relational">radial spines slender, flattened basally, deflexed, 5–8 mm, surrounding central spines;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="">central spines usually 4 (–6), spreading into a cross, stout, subterete, 2–3.4 (–4.5) cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="central spine atypical count;central spine count;central spine orientation;central spine count;spine architecture">also 0–2 bristlelike spines;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="sheath coloration;sheath coloration;sheath coloration;sheath coloration">sheaths whitish to pale-yellow (rarely golden) throughout or tipped yellow to golden.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="glochid coloration;glochid some measurement"><b>Glochids </b>in adaxial tuft, yellow, 1–3 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="inner tepal coloration;inner tepal coloration;inner tepal coloration;inner tepal shape;inner tepal atypical some measurement;inner tepal some measurement;inner tepal architecture or shape"><b>Flowers:</b> inner tepals yellow to green-yellow, spatulate, 15–25 (–30) mm, apiculate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="filament coloration;filament coloration">filaments yellowish or yellow-green;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="anther coloration">anthers yellow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="style coloration;style coloration;style coloration">style white to yellowish;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="stigma lobe coloration;stigma lobe coloration;stigma lobe coloration;stigma lobe coloration;stigma lobe coloration">stigma lobes whitish, yellowish, or pale green (rarely pink tinged).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="fruit life cycle;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit atypical length;fruit length;fruit atypical width;fruit width;fruit texture;fruit relief;fruit architecture"><b>Fruits </b>rarely proliferating, yellow to greenish yellow, broadly cylindric to subspheric, 18–30 (–35) × 15–22 (–32) mm, fleshy, tuberculate, spineless;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="tubercle size;distalmost tubercle length;distalmost tubercle prominence">tubercles subequal or distalmost longest, usually prominent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="umbilicus some measurement;umbilicus depth">umbilicus 7–8 mm deep;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="areole count">areoles 36–62.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="seed coloration;seed shape;seed shape;seed shape;seed shape;seed shape;seed shape;seed length;seed width;side architecture or pubescence or relief;side architecture or pubescence or relief;depression count"><b>Seeds </b>pale-yellow, subcircular to slightly angular in outline, flattened to warped, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, sides smooth or with 1–3 depressions;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="">girdle smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="girdle architecture or pubescence or relief;2n chromosome count;2n chromosome count">2n = 22, 44.</span><!--
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, low to upright, sparingly to densely branched, some almost matlike in Arizona, 0.3–0.6(–1.5) m; branchlets whorled to subwhorled. <b>Stem</b> segments firmly attached, green, 3–9(–15) × 0.5–1.5(–2.2) cm; tubercles prominent, short, 0.5–1 cm; areoles oval to obdeltate, 2–6 × 1.5–4 mm; wool pale yellow to white, aging gray. <b>Spines</b> (1–)3–8(–10) spines per areole, in all but basalmost areoles, best developed toward apex, interlacing with spines of adjacent areoles, whitish or pale yellow, pale red-brown, sometimes tipped yellow, of 2 kinds; radial spines slender, flattened basally, deflexed, 5–8 mm, surrounding central spines; central spines usually 4(–6), spreading into a cross, stout, subterete, 2–3.4(–4.5) cm; also 0–2 bristlelike spines; sheaths whitish to pale yellow (rarely golden) throughout or tipped yellow to golden. <b>Glochids</b> in adaxial tuft, yellow, 1–3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals yellow to green-yellow, spatulate, 15–25(–30) mm, apiculate; filaments yellowish or yellow-green; anthers yellow; style white to yellowish; stigma lobes whitish, yellowish, or pale green (rarely pink tinged). <b>Fruits</b> rarely proliferating, yellow to greenish yellow, broadly cylindric to subspheric, 18–30(–35) × 15–22(–32) mm, fleshy, tuberculate, spineless; tubercles subequal or distalmost longest, usually prominent; umbilicus 7–8 mm deep; areoles 36–62. <b>Seeds</b> pale yellow, subcircular to slightly angular in outline, flattened to warped, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, sides smooth or with 1–3 depressions; girdle smooth. <b>2n</b> = 22, 44.</span><!--
  
 
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|habitat=Desert and plains grasslands, juniper woodlands, oak, pinyon, or pine forests, sagebrush
 
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|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer (May–Jul).
 
|habitat=Desert and plains grasslands, juniper woodlands, oak, pinyon, or pine forests, sagebrush
 
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|seed coloration=pale-yellow
 
|seed length=3mm;3.5mm
 
|seed shape=flattened;warped
 
|seed width=2.5mm;3.5mm
 
|sheath coloration=whitish;pale-yellow throughout or tipped yellow
 
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|style coloration=white;yellowish
 
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|tubercle size=subequal
 
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Revision as of 14:59, 27 July 2019

Trees or shrubs, low to upright, sparingly to densely branched, some almost matlike in Arizona, 0.3–0.6(–1.5) m; branchlets whorled to subwhorled. Stem segments firmly attached, green, 3–9(–15) × 0.5–1.5(–2.2) cm; tubercles prominent, short, 0.5–1 cm; areoles oval to obdeltate, 2–6 × 1.5–4 mm; wool pale yellow to white, aging gray. Spines (1–)3–8(–10) spines per areole, in all but basalmost areoles, best developed toward apex, interlacing with spines of adjacent areoles, whitish or pale yellow, pale red-brown, sometimes tipped yellow, of 2 kinds; radial spines slender, flattened basally, deflexed, 5–8 mm, surrounding central spines; central spines usually 4(–6), spreading into a cross, stout, subterete, 2–3.4(–4.5) cm; also 0–2 bristlelike spines; sheaths whitish to pale yellow (rarely golden) throughout or tipped yellow to golden. Glochids in adaxial tuft, yellow, 1–3 mm. Flowers: inner tepals yellow to green-yellow, spatulate, 15–25(–30) mm, apiculate; filaments yellowish or yellow-green; anthers yellow; style white to yellowish; stigma lobes whitish, yellowish, or pale green (rarely pink tinged). Fruits rarely proliferating, yellow to greenish yellow, broadly cylindric to subspheric, 18–30(–35) × 15–22(–32) mm, fleshy, tuberculate, spineless; tubercles subequal or distalmost longest, usually prominent; umbilicus 7–8 mm deep; areoles 36–62. Seeds pale yellow, subcircular to slightly angular in outline, flattened to warped, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, sides smooth or with 1–3 depressions; girdle smooth. 2n = 22, 44.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–early summer (May–Jul).
Habitat: Desert and plains grasslands, juniper woodlands, oak, pinyon, or pine forests, sagebrush
Elevation: 900-2300 m

Distribution

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Ariz., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., Utah.

Discussion

Cylindropuntia whipplei hybridizes with C. acanthocarpa in central Arizona; the hybrids [= C. ×congesta (Griffiths) F. M. Knuth (as species) (D. J. Pinkava 1999)] are compact shrubs with long-tuberculate stem segments 8–12 mm thick, bearing 0–4 erect or deflexed spines per areole, and tuberculate, green to yellowish fruits occasionally bearing one to few spines, and have chromosome number of 2n = 22. In areas of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, C. whipplei hybridizes with C. echinocarpa, particularly with the low, compact form of C. echinocarpa; the hybrids [= C. ×multigeniculata (Clokey) Backeberg] have spineless to nearly spineless fruits, numerous intergrading spines per stem areole that are not dimorphic, and chromosome number of 2n = 22. Hybrids between C. whipplei and C. imbricata [= C. ×viridiflora (Britton & Rose) F. M. Knuth], which are found in scattered localities in northern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, have a low, bushy habit, ripe cantaloupe-colored inner tepals, an irregular, monomorphic spine pattern, and a chromosome number of 2n = 22. Cylindropuntia ×media P. V. Heath, from the base of Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado (G. Arp 1973), reportedly has the same putative parentage as the older name C. ×viridiflora; further study of its parentage is warranted. Cylindropuntia whipplei also hybridizes with C. leptocaulis.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Cylindropuntia whipplei"
Donald J. Pinkava +
(Engelmann & J. M. Bigelow) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth +
Opuntia whipplei +
Whipple cholla +
Ariz. +, Colo. +, Nev. +, N.Mex. +  and Utah. +
900-2300 m +
Desert and plains grasslands, juniper woodlands, oak, pinyon, or pine forests, sagebrush +
Flowering late spring–early summer (May–Jul). +
in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC, +
Cylindropuntia hualpaensis +, Cylindropuntia whipplei var. enodis +, Opuntia whipplei var. enodis +  and Opuntia whipplei var. laevior +
Cylindropuntia whipplei +
Cylindropuntia +
species +