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|accepted_name=Opuntia rufida
|accepted_authority=Engelmann
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=3: 298. 1856
|year=1856
}}
|common_names=Blind pricklypear
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia microdasys var. rufida
|authority=(Engelmann) K. Schumann
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia rufida var. tortiflora
|authority=M. S. Anthony
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Opuntia;Opuntia rufida
|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 rufida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 125, 142
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, with short trunk, many branched, 0.5–1.5 m. <b>Stem</b> segments not disarticulating, grayish green, flattened, reniform, circular, elliptic, or obovate, (7.5–)10–18(–25) × 5–25 cm, low tuberculate, pubescent; areoles 8–13 per diagonal row across midstem segment, circular, 3–3.2 mm diam.; wool white to tan, aging gray. <b>Spines</b> absent. <b>Glochids</b> numerous, nearly filling areole, red-brown to white, 1–2.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals yellow throughout, aging apricot to orange, obovate-apiculate, 25–38 mm; filaments whitish; anthers yellow; style green; stigma lobes dark green. <b>Fruits</b> red with green flesh, obovate, 20–35 × 15–23 mm, fleshy, short pubescent, spineless; umbilicus 5–7 mm deep; areoles (30–)36–52. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish, elliptic to subcircular, angular, 3–3.5 × 2.5–2.8 mm, thick, sides smooth or with 1–2 depressions; girdle protruding about 0.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Apr).
|habitat=Calcareous to volcanic flats, hillsides, sandy to gravelly desert soils
|elevation=600-1300 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango).
|discussion=<p><i>Opuntia rufida</i> hybridizes in Mexico with <i>O. microdasys</i>.</p><!--
--><p>The vernacular name is derived from the tendency for the glochids to shed into the eyes of grazing cattle that bump against the plant.</p>
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name=Opuntia rufida
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Opuntia microdasys var. rufida;Opuntia rufida var. tortiflora
|basionyms=
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Apr).
|habitat=Calcareous to volcanic flats, hillsides, sandy to gravelly desert soils
|elevation=600-1300 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1856
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Opuntia
|species=Opuntia rufida
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