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|accepted_name=Grusonia clavata
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) H. Robinson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=26: 176. 1973
|year=1973
}}
|common_names=Club-c holla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia clavata
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
|publication_title=in F. A. Wislizenus, Mem. Tour N. Mexico,
|publication_place=95. 1848
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cactus clavatus
|authority=(Engelmann) Lemaire
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corynopuntia clavata
|authority=(Engelmann) F. M. Knuth
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Grusonia;Grusonia clavata
|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>[[Grusonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Grusonia clavata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 119, 120
|treatment_page=page 121
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> forming mats, widely spreading, 5–15 cm, in series of usually 1–2 stem segments. <b>Roots</b> diffuse. <b>Stem</b> segments short-clavate, strongly narrowed at base, 2.5–5(–7.5) × 1.5–3 cm; tubercles prominent, oval, 5–10(–16) mm, narrow, 4–6 times longer than wide, obscured by interlacing spines; areoles 3 mm in diam.; wool white to gray. <b>Spines</b> 7–15 per areole, primarily in distal areoles; major 3–5 abaxial spines deflexed, white, flattened, longest central spine daggerlike, broadly tapered, 12–35 × 1.5+ mm basally; major 1–3 adaxial spines ascending, white, yellow to tan, angular-flattened to subterete. <b>Glochids</b> in adaxial 1/4 of areole, yellowish white, ± 4 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals bright yellow, to 25 mm; filaments light yellow-green to white; style and stigma lobes white. <b>Fruits</b> yellow, barrel-shaped to ellipsoid, 30–45 × 15–25 mm, fleshy, spineless, densely ± yellow-glochidiate; areoles 35–55. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish white, 4.5 × 4 mm, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring (May–Jun).
|habitat=Great Plains grasslands, open pinyon-juniper woodlands, rocky or sandy soils
|elevation=1800-2500 m
|distribution=N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>L. D. Benson (1982) mapped “<i>Opuntia</i> clavata” in northeast Arizona, but no supporting specimens have been found. The report may be based on low-growing specimens of <i>Cylindropuntia whipplei</i>, a cholla common in that area.</p>
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name=Grusonia clavata
|authority=(Engelmann) H. Robinson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cactus clavatus;Corynopuntia clavata
|basionyms=Opuntia clavata
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring (May–Jun).
|habitat=Great Plains grasslands, open pinyon-juniper woodlands, rocky or sandy soils
|elevation=1800-2500 m
|distribution=N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1973
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Grusonia
|species=Grusonia clavata
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