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|accepted_name=Ferocactus emoryi
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) Orcutt
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cactography
|place=1926(1): 5. 1926
|year=1926
}}
|common_names=Emory’s barrel cactus;Coville’s barrel cactus
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Echinocactus emoryi
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=3: 275. 1856
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ferocactus covillei
|authority=Britton & Rose
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Ferocactus;Ferocactus emoryi
|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>[[Ferocactus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ferocactus emoryi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 243, 244
|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, spheric to ovoid-cylindric, 30–90(–250) × 30–60(–100) cm; ribs (15–)21–32, shallowly notched immediately above each areole. <b>Spines</b> 6–10 per areole, reddish, reddish gray, or horn colored, all robust and rigid, more than 1 mm diam.; central spine 1, curved (hooked only on relatively young plants), annulate, thick, adaxially flat, 55–95(–130) × 2.5–4 mm. <b>Flowers</b> reddish outside, brilliant red inside, 6–7.5 × 5–7.5 cm; inner tepals brilliant red [yellow]; stigma lobes brilliant red. <b>Fruits</b> ± readily dehiscent through basal pore, bright yellow, 25–50 × 25–35 mm, leathery or fleshy, locule dry, hollow except for seeds. <b>Seeds</b> 2 mm, pitted. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall.
|habitat=Hillsides, wash margins, alluvial fans, mesas, or flats, gravelly rocky or sandy soils, rocky slopes and adjacent bajadas, Sonoran desert scrub, igneous substrates
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Sonora).
|discussion=<p><i>Ferocactus emoryi</i> has a confused taxonomic history. The name is based on <i>Echinocactus</i> emoryi, which was published twice by Engelmann, each involving a different species. Engelmann’s first use of E. emoryi [in W. H. Emory]—applied to a population of <i>Ferocactus wislizeni</i> in eastern Arizona—is rejected as provisional and therefore invalid. However, Engelmann’s second use of E. emoryi was a valid publication, and it unambigously pertains to the species in southwestern Arizona that Britton and Rose unncecessarily renamed as <i>Ferocactus</i> covillei.</p>
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name=Ferocactus emoryi
|authority=(Engelmann) Orcutt
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ferocactus covillei
|basionyms=Echinocactus emoryi
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall.
|habitat=Hillsides, wash margins, alluvial fans, mesas, or flats, gravelly rocky or sandy soils, rocky slopes and adjacent bajadas, Sonoran desert scrub, igneous substrates
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cactography
|publication year=1926
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Ferocactus
|species=Ferocactus emoryi
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