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|accepted_name=Epithelantha bokei
|accepted_authority=L. D. Benson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|place=41: 185, figs. 2, 3(lower). 1969
|year=1969
}}
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Epithelantha micromeris var. bokei
|authority=(L. D. Benson) Glass & R. A. Foster
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Epithelantha;Epithelantha bokei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Epithelantha]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Epithelantha bokei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 240
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>unbranched (very rarely branched), appearing pure white or slightly yellowish, smooth, and shiny in general aspect. <b>Stems</b> flat-topped, disk-shaped, short cylindric, or cylindric, 2–5 cm diam. <b>Spines</b> (40–)50–90 per areole, in more than 3 superimposed series; mature lateral spine clusters uniformly white to creamy yellow, 2–2.5(–4) mm diam.; longest intact spines 4.5–7 mm; worn spines 0.1–2 mm. <b>Flowers</b> conspicuously exserted beyond longer spines at stem apex, 1–1.7 × 1–1.7 cm; inner tepals 13–21 per flower, 5–6(–9) × 1.5–2.3(–3) mm; stamens 20–40. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer (May–Jun); fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Chihuahuan Desert on rocky, barren hills of sedimentary substrates
|elevation=700[-1400] m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>Epithelantha bokei is an obligate outcrosser. Its flowers tend to open in mid afternoon, when those of E. micromeris are already closing.</p><!--
--><p>Epithelantha bokei is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Epithelantha bokei
|author=
|authority=L. D. Benson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Epithelantha micromeris var. bokei
|basionyms=
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer (May–Jun); fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Chihuahuan Desert on rocky, barren hills of sedimentary substrates
|elevation=700[-1400] m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|publication year=1969
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Epithelantha
|species=Epithelantha bokei
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