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Taxon: Grusonia grahamii (Engelm.) H. Rob.

Genus: Grusonia
Family: Cactaceae subfamily: Opuntioideae tribe: Cylindropuntieae.
Nomen number: 427007
Place of publication: Phytologia 26:176. 1973
Name verified on: 27-Aug-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Aug-2003
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:

  • Graham's club cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  • Graham's club cholla   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • Graham's dog cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  • mound dwarf cholla   (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) 344.
  • Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada. (Cact US Can) [= Opuntia schottii var. grahamii (Engelm.) L. D. Benson].
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Hunt, D. et al., eds. 2006. The new cactus lexicon. (Cact Lexicon) [= Corynopuntia grahamii (Engelm.) F. M. Knuth].
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Grusonia grahamii (Engelm.) H. Rob.:

  • 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?427007 (09 February 2010)

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