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|accepted_name=Opuntia pottsii
|accepted_authority=Salm-Dyck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Hort. Dyck.
|place=1849, 236. 1850
|year=1850
}}
|common_names=Potts pricklypear
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia ballii
|authority=Rose
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia delicata
|authority=Rose
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia filipendula
|authority=Engelmann
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia macrorhiza var. pottsii
|authority=(Salm-Dyck) L. D. Benson
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Opuntia;Opuntia pottsii
|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 pottsii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 125, 127
|treatment_page=page 132
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> forming clumps, to 0.4 m, often from tuberlike rootstocks. <b>Stem</b> segments not easily detached, dark green, cuneate-obovate to commonly rhombic, 5–20 × 4–8 cm, fleshy but firm; areoles 4–6(–8) per diagonal row across midstem segment, oval to subcircular, 2–4 mm diam.; wool tan. <b>Spines</b> (0–)1–6 per areole, usually in distal 40% of stem segment, gray-white to red-brown, erect or reflexed, terete or proximal ones flattened, sometimes spirally twisted, longest to 60 mm, very slender, 0.2 mm diam. <b>Glochids</b> well developed in adaxial tuft, yellow or tan to brown-red, aging dull brown, to 6 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals red throughout or with red basal portions, 25–35 mm; filaments pale yellow; anthers yellow; style whitish; stigma lobes cream to yellow. <b>Fruits</b> green to yellowish to dull red, long stipitate, elongate-obovoid, 25–40 × 15–40 mm, fleshy, base not narrowed, glabrous, spineless or nearly so; umbilicus deep; areoles 14–26. <b>Seeds</b> tan to gray, subcircular, 4–5 mm, thickish, warped; girdle protruding to 0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer (May–Jul).
|habitat=Plains, hills, sandy or loamy soils
|elevation=900-1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|discussion=<p>Plants of <i>Opuntia pottsii</i> that are intermediate morphologically to <i>O. macrorhiza</i> are known in Arizona.</p>
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name=Opuntia pottsii
|author=
|authority=Salm-Dyck
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Opuntia ballii;Opuntia delicata;Opuntia filipendula;Opuntia macrorhiza var. pottsii
|basionyms=
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer (May–Jul).
|habitat=Plains, hills, sandy or loamy soils
|elevation=900-1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact. Hort. Dyck.
|publication year=1850
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Opuntia
|species=Opuntia pottsii
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