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|accepted_name=Sclerocactus pubispinus
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) L. D. Benson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|place=38: 103. 1966
|year=1966
}}
|common_names=Great Basin fishhook cactus
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Echinocactus pubispinus
|authority=Engelmann
|publication_title=Trans Acad. Sci. St. Louis
|publication_place=2: 199. 1863
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ferocactus pubispinus
|authority=(Engelmann) N. P. Taylor
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Sclerocactus;Sclerocactus pubispinus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sclerocactus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sclerocactus pubispinus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 198, 204
|treatment_page=page 203
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>unbranched (2–3-branched), light green, depressed hemispheric to ovoid or cylindric, 4–15 × 3–15 cm; ribs (11–)13–14, tubercles prominent on ribs. <b>Spines</b> not obscuring stems; radial spines (6–)8–11(–16) per areole, spreading, white or with dark tips, 4–35 × 0.3–1 mm; central spines (0–)4(–6) per areole; abaxial central spines 1(–3) per areole, tan, brown, reddish, or black, usually hooked, terete to angled, 10–55 mm; lateral spines usually (0–)2(–4) per areole, white, tan, red or reddish brown, usually hooked, except on some older areoles, 10–30 mm; adaxial spines 1 per areole, tipped white or dark, flattened, 5–25(–60) × 0.5–1(–2.2) mm. <b>Flowers</b> tubular, funnelform to campanulate, 2–4 × 2–4 cm; outer tepals with pink to yellowish brown, greenish brown or reddish brown midstripes and cream, yellow, pink, or reddish purple margins, usually oblanceolate, 10–20 × 4–8 mm, margins entire to irregularly toothed; inner tepals cream with yellow, greenish, reddish purple, lavender or brownish midstripes and lighter margins, oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 15–25 × 4–8 mm, margins entire to minutely toothed apically; filaments cream, yellow, green, red-violet, or pink; anthers yellow; styles minutely and sparsely papillate. <b>Fruits</b> dehiscent along 2–4 vertical slits, green or pink, barrel-shaped, 9–12 × 8–10 mm, dry; scales few, membranous, scarious-margined. <b>Seeds</b> black, 2.5–4 × 2–2.9 mm; testa with rounded papillae.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Apr–May.
|habitat=Light colored soils of limestone or dolostone origin, sagebrush and shadscale flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1400-2200 m
|distribution=Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Sclerocactus pubispinus</i> is very similar to <i>S. spinosior</i>, and the two taxa have historically been confused. In addition to the features noted in the key, <i>S. pubispinus</i> generally has one dark red, robust, hooked central spine and two less stout, hooked central spines that are initially dark red and quickly fade to white, and flowers that are usually yellow to bronze. By contrast, <i>S. spinosior</i> generally has three stout, dark red central spines, the abaxial spine hooked, and flowers that are usually purple to cream. However, in juvenile (pre-reproductive) stages, the species are nearly indistinguishable.</p>
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name=Sclerocactus pubispinus
|author=
|authority=(Engelmann) L. D. Benson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ferocactus pubispinus
|basionyms=Echinocactus pubispinus
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Apr–May.
|habitat=Light colored soils of limestone or dolostone origin, sagebrush and shadscale flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1400-2200 m
|distribution=Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|publication year=1966
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Sclerocactus
|species=Sclerocactus pubispinus
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