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|accepted_name=Cylindropuntia ×kelvinensis
|accepted_authority=(V. E. Grant & K. A. Grant) P. V. Heath
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Calyx
|place=4: 142. 1994
|year=1994
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia kelvinensis
|authority=V. E. Grant & K. A. Grant
|publication_title=Evolution
|publication_place=25: 155, fig. 5. 1971
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Cylindropuntia;Cylindropuntia ×kelvinensis
|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 ×kelvinensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 103, 105, 107, 112
|treatment_page=page 108
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>1.5–2 m; trunk commonly branched; crown open to compact usually bearing whorled branches. <b>Stem</b> segments often easily dislodged, if terminal, green or purple, 5–13 × 1.8–3 cm; tubercles prominent, broadly oval, 0.7–1.2(–1.5) cm; areoles obdeltate to rhombic, 4.5–6 × 3–5 mm; wool yellow, aging gray to black. <b>Spines</b> 0–8(–13) per areole, sometimes with 1–3 bristlelike spines along areole margins at most areoles, usually slightly interlacing with spines of adjacent areoles, yellowish to tan, sometimes with pinkish hue, to red-brown and partially gray coated, aging brown-gray to gray; major abaxial spines angular-flattened, usually reflexed, the longest to 30 mm; major adaxial spines subterete, erect-divergent, the longest to 18 mm; sheaths uniformly whitish or tipped yellow to gold, slightly baggy. <b>Glochids</b> in inconspicuous adaxial crescent, yellow, to 1 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals rose to magenta, spatulate, 18–25(–30) mm, emarginate-apiculate; filaments deep rose; anthers yellow; style white, tinged red-purple distally; stigma lobes white with hint of green. <b>Fruits</b> usually sterile, sometimes forming short chains, yellow-green to yellow, sometimes purplish, 25–45 × 15–22 mm, fleshy, tuberculate, spineless; tubercles progressively longer toward fruit apex; umbilicus 4–7 mm deep; areoles 32–44. <b>Seeds</b> pale yellow, orbicular to angular or squarish in outline, flattened to warped, 3.5–4 × 3–4 mm, sides with 0–2 large depressions; hilum sometimes pointed; girdle smooth. <b>2n</b> = 22, 33.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Sonoran desert scrub, edges of grasslands, rocky flats and slopes, rolling hills
|elevation=500-1000 m
|distribution=Ariz.
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name=Cylindropuntia ×kelvinensis
|author=
|authority=(V. E. Grant & K. A. Grant) P. V. Heath
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Opuntia kelvinensis
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Sonoran desert scrub, edges of grasslands, rocky flats and slopes, rolling hills
|elevation=500-1000 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|reference=None
|publication title=Calyx
|publication year=1994
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Cylindropuntia
|species=Cylindropuntia ×kelvinensis
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