Cylindropuntia spinosior information from NPGS/GRIN

United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
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Taxon: Cylindropuntia spinosior (Engelm.) F. M. Knuth

Genus: Cylindropuntia
Family: Cactaceae subfamily: Opuntioideae tribe: Cylindropuntieae.
Nomen number: 427015
Place of publication: C. Backeberg & F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC 126. 1935
Name verified on: 29-Aug-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Aug-2003
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.

SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN BECAUSE RARE OR ENDANGERED

Species on the following lists:

CITES Appendix II
Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

cane cholla (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
spiny cholla (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
walking-stick cactus (Source: F NAmer ) – English

Economic importance:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

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

NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Sonora

References:

Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family. 213.
Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada. [= Opuntia spinosior (Engelm.) Toumey].
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. et al., eds. 2006. The new cactus lexicon.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cylindropuntia spinosior.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cylindropuntia spinosior.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cylindropuntia spinosior.

Synonyms:

(≡) Opuntia spinosior (Engelm.) Toumey
(previously associated with 6 accessions)
(≡) Opuntia whipplei var. spinosior Engelm. (basionym)

Check other web resources for Cylindropuntia spinosior (Engelm.) F. M. Knuth:

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.

Images:

GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image