View source for Opuntia littoralis

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|accepted_name=Opuntia littoralis
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) Cockerell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|place=4: 15. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia engelmannii var. littoralis
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=variety
|publication_title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. Calif.
|publication_place=1: 248. 1876
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia lindheimeri var. littoralis
|authority=(Engelmann) J. M. Coult er
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia occidentalis var. littoralis
|authority=(Engelmann) Parish
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia semispinosa
|authority=Griffiths
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Opuntia;Opuntia littoralis
|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>[[Opuntia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Opuntia littoralis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 140
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> spreading to sprawling, forming large clumps, to 1 × 1–9 m. <b>Stem</b> segments not disarticulating, green, flattened, elliptic to obovate to rhombic, 15–25(–40) × 6.5–14 cm, ± tuberculate, glabrous, usually glaucous; areoles 5–7(–8) per diagonal row across midstem segment, prominent, subcircular(-oval), 4–6 × 4–5 mm, enlarging in age; wool gray. <b>Spines</b> 4–11 per areole, in most areoles, yellow with chalky white coat, to yellow with red-brown basal portions, aging reddish gray; erect ones terete, stout, straight; abaxial ones reflexed, shorter, to 12 mm; adaxial spines spreading, longest spines 20–40 mm. <b>Glochids</b> moderately dense in crescent at adaxial edge of areole, merging with subapical tuft when present, yellow to red-brown, to 5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals yellow to dull red throughout, 35–45 mm; filaments yellow to orange-yellow; anthers yellow; style pink to red; stigma lobes yellow-green to green. <b>Fruits</b> dark red-purple throughout, obovoid, 35–50 × 30–35 mm, juicy, glabrous, spineless; areoles 22–36. <b>Seeds</b> gray, subcircular, warped, 3–4.5 mm diam.; girdle protruding 0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 66.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–May).
|habitat=Coastal sage scrub, chaparral
|elevation=10-400 m
|distribution=Calif. (including Channel Islands);Mexico (Baja California).
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|references=
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name=Opuntia littoralis
|authority=(Engelmann) Cockerell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Opuntia lindheimeri var. littoralis;Opuntia occidentalis var. littoralis;Opuntia semispinosa
|basionyms=Opuntia engelmannii var. littoralis
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–May).
|habitat=Coastal sage scrub, chaparral
|elevation=10-400 m
|distribution=Calif. (including Channel Islands);Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1905
|special status=Illustrated
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Opuntia
|species=Opuntia littoralis
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