View source for Sclerocactus mesae-verdae

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sclerocactus mesae-verdae
|accepted_authority=(Boissevain & C. Davidson) L. D. Benson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|place=38: 54. 1966
|year=1966
}}
|common_names=Mesa Verde fishhook cactus
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Coloradoa mesae-verdae
|authority=Boissevain & C. Davidson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Colorado Cacti,
|publication_place=55, figs. 38–40. 1940 (as mesae verdae)
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Echinocactus mesae-verdae
|authority=(Boissevain & C. Davidson) L. D. Benson
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ferocactus mesae-verdae
|authority=(Boissevain & C. Davidson) N. P. Taylor
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pediocactus mesae-verdae
|authority=(Boissevain & C. Davidson) Arp
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Sclerocactus;Sclerocactus mesae-verdae
|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 mesae-verdae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 198, 201
|treatment_page=page 203
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>usually unbranched (occasionally 2–3-branched), usually pale green, depressed-spheric to ovoid, usually 3.2–11(–18) × 3.8–8(–10) cm, somewhat glaucous; ribs 13–17, tubercles inconspicuous. <b>Spines</b> not obscuring stem, usually only radial; radial spines 7–14 per areole, spreading, straw colored, 6–13 mm, less than 1 mm diam.; central spines 0(–4) per areole (very rarely 1 abaxial central spine per areole hooked, 7–15 mm, brown). <b>Flowers</b> funnelform to campanulate, 1–3.5 × 1–3 cm; outer tepals with purple midstripes and cream or gold (rarely pink) margins, oblanceolate, 10–25 × 5–8 mm; inner tepals yellow to cream (rarely pink), oblanceolate, 15–30 × 5 mm; filaments pale yellow or white; anthers yellow. <b>Fruits</b> indehiscent to irregularly dehiscent, green, becoming tan at maturity, short cylindric, (4–)8–10 × 7–9 mm. <b>Seeds</b> black, 2.5–3 × 3–4 mm; testa cells convex but somewhat flattened apically.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Apr-early May.
|habitat=Alkaline, clay badlands, mat saltbush communities
|elevation=1500-1700 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Sclerocactus mesae-verdae</i> is characterized by its relatively short radial spines and the general absence of central spines. In addition, no other <i>Sclerocactus</i> in Colorado or New Mexico has flowers that are cream to yellow (or pale pink).</p><!--
--><p><i>Sclerocactus mesae-verdae</i> is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Sclerocactus mesae-verdae
|authority=(Boissevain & C. Davidson) L. D. Benson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Echinocactus mesae-verdae;Ferocactus mesae-verdae;Pediocactus mesae-verdae
|basionyms=Coloradoa mesae-verdae
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Apr-early May.
|habitat=Alkaline, clay badlands, mat saltbush communities
|elevation=1500-1700 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|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 mesae-verdae
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