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|accepted_name=Opuntia microdasys
|accepted_authority=(Lehmann) Pfeiffer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Diagn. Cact.,
|place=154. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|common_names=Bunny-ears pricklypear
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cactus microdasys
|authority=Lehmann
|publication_title=Index Seminum (Hamburg),
|publication_place=1827: 16. 1827
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Opuntia;Opuntia microdasys
|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 microdasys]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 125, 142
|treatment_page=page 141
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> erect to sprawling, to 1 m, with many small stem segments. <b>Stem</b> segments not disarticulating, bright green, flattened, circular to elliptic-obovate, (5–)7–10(–15) × (3–)4–8(–10) cm, low tuberculate, puberulent; areoles (9–)11–16 per diagonal row across midstem segment, subcircular, 2–5 mm diam.; wool white to tan, aging gray. <b>Spines</b> absent. <b>Glochids</b> numerous, nearly filling areole, usually yellow or whitish, sometimes reddish brown, to 3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals bright yellow throughout, aging peach, 25–30 mm; filaments and style white; anthers yellowish; stigma lobes dark green. <b>Fruits</b> red, spheric to ovoid, 20–25 × 12–16 mm, fleshy, pubescent, spineless; areoles 35–50. <b>Seeds</b> tan, nearly spheric (slightly flattened), 1–1.2 mm (perhaps infertile); girdle protruding to 0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–May).
|habitat=Desert hills, uplands, sandy to loamy calcareous soils
|elevation=1700-2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Zacatecas).
|discussion=<p><i>Opuntia microdasys</i> is widely cultivated and sometimes naturalized in Arizona. In Mexico, <i>O. microdasys</i> hybridizes with <i>O. rufida</i>.</p>
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name=Opuntia microdasys
|author=
|authority=(Lehmann) Pfeiffer
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cactus microdasys
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–May).
|habitat=Desert hills, uplands, sandy to loamy calcareous soils
|elevation=1700-2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Zacatecas).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Diagn. Cact.,
|publication year=1837
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Opuntia
|species=Opuntia microdasys
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