View source for Coryphantha recurvata

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|accepted_name=Coryphantha recurvata
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) Britton & Rose
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact.
|place=4: 27. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|common_names=Santa Cruz beehive cactus
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mammillaria recurvata
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis
|publication_place=2: 202. 1863 (as Mamillaria)
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Coryphantha;Coryphantha recurvata
|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>[[Coryphantha]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Coryphantha recurvata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 98, 219, 220, 221, 2
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>unbranched or few branched, except in old age, ultimately forming mounds, rarely to 1 m diam., stems to 50, with most spines pressed against stem outline. <b>Roots</b> ± diffuse. <b>Stems</b> spheric to broadly short cylindric, 10–25(–30) × (7.5–)10–15 cm; tubercles 6–10 × 6 mm, firm; areolar glands seasonally conspicuous; pith 1/5 of lesser stem diam.; medullary vascular system conspicuous. <b>Spines</b> 12–20 per areole, tan or yellow, largest spines turning gray with red tips, all nearly terete; radial spines (12–)15–20 per areole, 12–15 mm, basally 0.5 mm diam.; central spines 1(–2) per areole, decurved, (15–)20 mm, usually less than 1 mm diam. <b>Flowers</b> distant from stem apex, forming ring around distal portion of stem, 25–40 × 25–40 mm; outer tepals denticulate; inner tepals 20–30 per flower, greenish yellow or lemon yellow, 18 × 3–4.5 mm; anthers pale yellow; stigma lobes ca. 5, pale green (requiring verification), ca. 2.5–2.8 mm. <b>Fruits</b> greenish white (drying yellow-green) to partly or wholly tinted with dull reddish brown, usually 1.5–2 times longer than thick, spheric or elongate, 9–12(–13) × (4–)5–7 mm, pulp sparse and soon drying; floral remnant strongly persistent. <b>Seeds</b> bright brown, spheric, finely and weakly raised-reticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting winter (Nov–Jan).
|habitat=Valleys, mesas, foothills, grasslands, oak belts, grassy or rocky areas
|elevation=1200-1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Sonora).
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|references=
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name=Coryphantha recurvata
|authority=(Engelmann) Britton & Rose
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mammillaria recurvata
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting winter (Nov–Jan).
|habitat=Valleys, mesas, foothills, grasslands, oak belts, grassy or rocky areas
|elevation=1200-1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact.
|publication year=1923
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Coryphantha
|species=Coryphantha recurvata
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