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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cylindropuntia ramosissima
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktu s-ABC,
|place=122. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|common_names=Diamond cholla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia ramosissima
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
|publication_title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication_place=2, 14: 339. 1852
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia tessellata
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Cylindropuntia;Cylindropuntia ramosissima
|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 ramosissima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 103, 114
|treatment_page=page 118
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, intricately branched, 0.5–2 m. <b>Stem</b> segments firmly attached, green drying gray and ropelike, cylindric, 2–8(–10) × 0.4–1 cm; tubercles rhombic, convex (flattened upon drying), 0.4–0.8 cm; areoles subcircular abaxially, adaxially becoming usually deltate-linear; glochid-bearing portion protruding distally, wedged between bases of 2 adjacent tubercles, (3–)4–7 × 1–1.5(–2) mm; wool tan to white. <b>Spines</b> 0–5 per areole, usually in distal areoles or sometimes absent or nearly so, tan to red-brown to deep purple, aging gray; major abaxial spines 0–1(–2), the longest spine spreading, (1.5–)2.5–6 cm; adaxial spines usually reflexed, short to ± 1 cm; sheaths baggy. <b>Glochids</b> in subcircular to linear adaxial tuft, yellow to tan to brown, to 2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals bronze-red ± suffused rose, with mid stripes darker, ovate, 6–13 mm, acute-apiculate to attenuate; filaments greenish; anthers yellow; style whitish or blushed with rose-pink or light green; stigma lobes whitish. <b>Fruits</b> maturing tan, ellipsoid to stipitate-ellipsoid, 15–30 × 10–15 mm, dry at maturity, tuberculate, developing increasingly burlike, with many bristlelike spines; areoles (32–)40–66, evenly spaced, woolly. <b>Seeds</b> pale yellow to tan-gray, angular to squarish in outline, warped, 4–4.5 × 3.5–4 mm, sides irregularly concave-convex; girdle smooth. <b>2n</b> = 22, 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Aug).
|habitat=Mojave and Sonoran deserts, washes, flats, and bajadas, sandy loam, desert pavement, stony volcanic substrates
|elevation=50-1100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
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name=Cylindropuntia ramosissima
|authority=(Engelmann) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Opuntia tessellata
|basionyms=Opuntia ramosissima
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Aug).
|habitat=Mojave and Sonoran deserts, washes, flats, and bajadas, sandy loam, desert pavement, stony volcanic substrates
|elevation=50-1100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktu s-ABC,
|publication year=1935
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Cylindropuntia
|species=Cylindropuntia ramosissima
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