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Opuntia chlorotica is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is a species of prickly pear native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include pancake prickly pear, flapjack prickly pear and dollarjoint prickly pear.

Opuntia chlorotica
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Genus:	Opuntia
Species:	O. chlorotica
Binomial name
Opuntia chlorotica Engelm. & Bigelow

This cactus is bluish-green and manifests a bushy to erect form that may attain a height of two meters or more.[2][3] Some analysis of the prehistoric range of O. chlorotica has been conducted by studies in the Waterman Mountains of Arizona; these pollen core analyses indicate that this cactus species was present in northern Arizona in late Wisconsinan glaciation period.[4]

References

Notes

• Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1919. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family 236 pages
• C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
• Jepson Manual Treatment: Opuntia chlorotica. 1993

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Opuntia chlorotica.

• Flora of North America; RangeMap
• Calflora images: Opuntia chlorotica
• Opuntia chlorotica photo gallery at Opuntia Web

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Opuntia chlorotica , es una especie fanerógama perteneciente a la familia Cactaceae. Es nativa de Norteamérica en los estados de Baja California, Sonora, Arizona, California, Nevada, Nuevo México y Utah.

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