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Taxon: Echinocereus rigidissimus (Engelm.) hort. ex F. Haage

Genus: Echinocereus
Family: Cactaceae subfamily: Cactoideae tribe: Pachycereeae.
Nomen number: 14820
Place of publication: Special Preisverz. [catalogue] 13. 1897
Name verified on: 09-Dec-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Aug-2006
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN BECAUSE RARE OR ENDANGERED

Species on the following lists:


Common names:

  • Arizona rainbow cactus   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • Arizona rainbow hedgehog cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  • rainbow hedgehog cactus   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • Sonoran rainbow cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

References:

  • Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. (Cact Fam)
  • Backeberg, C. 1960. Die Cactaceae. 2041. [= E. pectinatus var. rigidissimus (Engelm.) Rümpler].
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2. (F Ariz) [= E. pectinatus var. rigidissimus (Engelm.) Rümpler].
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [= E. pectinatus var. rigidissimus (Engelm.) Rümpler].
  • Taylor, N. P. 1985. The genus Echinocereus. (Echinocereus) 122.
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Echinocereus rigidissimus (Engelm.) hort. ex F. Haage:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14820 (09 February 2010)

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