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Taxon: Opuntia chlorotica Engelm. & Bigelow
Family: Cactaceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   26934   

Date: 2012-05-11

Locality: USA, Arizona, Maricopa County, McDowell - Sonoran Preserve.

33.772141  -111.844204

Verbatim Coordinates: 12S 421831E 3737212N

Elevation: 840 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 2763ft

Habitat: Sonoran Desert scrub on bajada slopes

Substrate: granitic

Associated Species: Carnegiea gigantea, Cercidium floridum, Simmondsia chinensis, Senegalia greggii, Yucca baccata, Ambrosia dumosa, Krameria, Dasyochloa pulchella, Aristida purpurea, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Opuntia engelmannii engelmannii, O. phaeacantha, Larrea tridentata, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, C. leptocaulis.

Description: Local, occasional, flowers with outer perianth greenish-maroon midstripe, inner perianth light yellow, pinkish rose basally and midstripe, filaments light chartreuse cream to cream, anthers cream, style whitish cream-green, stigma lobes chartreuse green, measurements in mm: 90(l)x67(w), 73x70; inner tepal 34x26, broadly obovate; fruits collected 18 July 2012: rose-maroon, juicy, 50(l)x35(w) mm, 42x35, 48x40, 45x35.

Occurrence Remarks: Sheet 1 of 2. Photos.

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Record Id: e5f5db56-0fa9-4554-8442-60924a9ab398

Occurrence ID (GUID): e5f5db56-0fa9-4554-8442-60924a9ab398

For additional information on this occurrence, please contact: Andrew Salywon (asalywon@dbg.org)

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