View source for Grusonia kunzei

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Grusonia kunzei
|accepted_authority=(Rose) Pinkava
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci.
|place=32: 50. 1999
|year=1999
}}
|common_names=Kunze’s club-cholla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia kunzei
|authority=Rose
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corynopuntia stanlyi var. kunzei
|authority=(Rose) Backeberg
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corynopuntia stanlyi var. wrightiana
|authority=(E. M. Baxter) Backeberg
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Grusonia wrightiana
|authority=Engelmann ex B. D. Jackson
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia stanlyi var. kunzei
|authority=(Rose) L. D. Benson
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia stanlyi var. peeblesiana
|authority=L. D. Benson
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Opuntia wrightiana
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Grusonia;Grusonia kunzei
|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 kunzei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 95, 119, 120
|treatment_page=page 121
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> forming mats, to 50 cm, in series of usually 2–4 stem segments. <b>Roots</b> diffuse. <b>Stem</b> segments curved and narrowed at base, 10–15 × 2.5–4 cm; tubercles prominent, 20–30 mm, narrow, 4–6 times longer than wide, obscured by interlacing spines; areoles 5–6 mm in diam.; wool gray-white. <b>Spines</b> 17–27 per areole, ± uniformly distributed along stems; major 4–6 abaxial spines deflexed, tan with whitish margins, strongly flattened, longest to 4.5 cm; major 4–5 adaxial spines divergent, tan to reddish tan, angled at base, longest subterete, to 5 cm. <b>Glochids</b> few in adaxial portion of areole, yellow, 5–6 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals yellow to pale yellow-green, to 15–20 mm; filaments white; style light green to white; stigma lobes white. <b>Fruits</b> sometimes proliferating, lemon yellow to yellow, 40–75 × 15–40 mm, fleshy, very spiny, glochidiate; spines (4–)6–17 per areole, straw yellow to brown, 12–20 mm, retrorsely barbed; areoles (40–)45–70. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish white, 4–5 ×3.5–4.5 mm, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Sonoran Desert, silty, sandy, or gravelly flats and hills
|elevation=200-600 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
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|references=
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name=Grusonia kunzei
|author=
|authority=(Rose) Pinkava
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Corynopuntia stanlyi var. kunzei;Corynopuntia stanlyi var. wrightiana;Grusonia wrightiana;Opuntia stanlyi var. kunzei;Opuntia stanlyi var. peeblesiana;Opuntia wrightiana
|basionyms=Opuntia kunzei
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Sonoran Desert, silty, sandy, or gravelly flats and hills
|elevation=200-600 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1999
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_234.xml
|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Grusonia
|species=Grusonia kunzei
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