View source for Pediocactus bradyi

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|accepted_name=Pediocactus bradyi
|accepted_authority=L. D. Benson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|place=34: 19, figs. 13, 14. 1962
|year=1962
}}
|common_names=Marble Canyon cactus;Brady’s hedgehog cactus
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pediocactella bradyi
|authority=(L. D. Benson) Doweld
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pediocactus simpsonii subsp. bradyi
|authority=(L. D. Benson) Halda
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Toumeya bradyi
|authority=(L. D. Benson) W. Earle
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Pediocactus;Pediocactus bradyi
|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>[[Pediocactus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pediocactus bradyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 213
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>usually unbranched (rarely 2–12-branched). <b>Stems</b> subglobose to obovoid, 3.2–6.2 × 2.5–5 cm; areoles elliptic, lanulose. <b>Spines</b> smooth, relatively hard, spreading to recurved, somewhat pectinate, usually all radial (rarely with central spines); radial spines (7–)13–16(–18) per areole, tips bending downward, yellowish tan or white, 3–5 × 0.7 mm; central spines 0(–2) per areole, dark tan, rigid, straight or slightly curved, 3–4 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 1.5–2.2 × 1.5–3 cm; scales and outer tepals minutely toothed or denticulate or entire and undulate; outer tepals straw yellow with green or red-brown midstripes, 3–15 × 3–4.5 mm; inner tepals straw colored, 9–15 × 3–4.5 mm. <b>Fruits</b> green turning reddish brown, turbinate, 7–10 × 10 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brownish black, to 2.7 × 1.7–2 mm, papillate and rugose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring.
|habitat=Great Basin desert scrub, clay soils of ledges often overlain with limestone gravel
|elevation=1000-1200 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Some authors have included <i>Pediocactus winkleri</i> and <i>P. despainii</i> as infraspecific taxa of <i>P. bradyi</i>. Chloroplast DNA sequence data strongly indicate a more distant relationship (see discussion under 8. <i>P. winkleri</i>).</p>
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name=Pediocactus bradyi
|authority=L. D. Benson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pediocactella bradyi;Pediocactus simpsonii subsp. bradyi;Toumeya bradyi
|basionyms=
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring.
|habitat=Great Basin desert scrub, clay soils of ledges often overlain with limestone gravel
|elevation=1000-1200 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|publication year=1962
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Pediocactus
|species=Pediocactus bradyi
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