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Taxon: Ferocactus emoryi (Engelm.) Orcutt

Genus: Ferocactus
Family: Cactaceae subfamily: Cactoideae tribe: Cacteae.
Nomen number: 310484
Place of publication: Cactography 5. 1926
Comment: rejected by most American authors because its basionym, Echinocactus emoryi Engelm. (1848, nom. provis.? & 1856, nom. illeg.?), was either a) illegitimate or b) not validly published; must be based on a legitimate basionym of 1856
Name verified on: 30-Oct-2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Jan-2005
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:


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • Coville's barrel cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  • Emory's barrel cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  • traveler's friend   (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. 1977. Das Kakteen Lexikon. 155.
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Hunt, D. 1999. CITES Cactaceae checklist, ed. 2. (CITES Cact L ed2)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ferocactus emoryi (Engelm.) Orcutt:

  • 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?310484 (09 February 2010)

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