Taxon: Pediocactus knowltonii L. D. Benson

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix I
  
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Endangered
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• Knowlton's cactus   (Source: US Fish & Wildl List ) – English
  
• Knowlton's minute cactus   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Knowlton's pincushion cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• thimble plains cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [Rio Arriba Co.]

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pediocactus knowltonii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pediocactus knowltonii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pediocactus knowltonii.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Pediocactus bradyi var. knowltonii (L. D. Benson) Backeb.
  
• (=) "Toumeya knowltonii anon., nom. nud."
  

Check other web resources for Pediocactus knowltonii L. D. Benson:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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