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|accepted_name=Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi
|accepted_authority=(Thornber & Bonker) Backeberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cactaceae
|place=1: 184. 1958
|year=1958
}}
|common_names=Thornber cholla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia thornberi
|authority=Thornber & Bonker
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fantast. Clan,
|publication_place=133, 135 (fig.), 148. 1932
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi
|authority=(Thornber & Bonker) L. D. Benson
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Cylindropuntia;Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa;Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi
|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 acanthocarpa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 103, 116
|treatment_page=page 117
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> with few to many branches, at acute and obtuse angles. <b>Stem</b> segments gray-green, 10–25(–50) cm; tubercles very prominent and broad, 2.5–4.5 cm. <b>Spines</b> 6–11(–14) per areole, rarely interlacing with spines of adjacent areoles, yellow to deep red-brown, aging gray, not baggy sheathed; major abaxial spines usually deflexed and spreading. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals yellow to bronze. <b>Fruits</b> bearing few spines, sometimes spineless; areoles 12–20. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid-late spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Sonoran and Mojave deserts, desert grasslands, chaparral transition areas, rocky hills, ridges
|elevation=600-1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.
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|references=
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name=Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi
|authority=(Thornber & Bonker) Backeberg
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Opuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi
|basionyms=Opuntia thornberi
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid-late spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Sonoran and Mojave deserts, desert grasslands, chaparral transition areas, rocky hills, ridges
|elevation=600-1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cactaceae
|publication year=1958
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Cylindropuntia
|species=Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa
|variety=Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi
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