Difference between revisions of "Pediocactus peeblesianus"

(Croizat) L. D. Benson

Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 34: 58. 1962.

Common names: Peebles Navajo cactus Navajo pincushion cactus
Basionym: Navajoa peeblesiana Croizat Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 15: 89, fig. 42. 1943
Synonyms: Utahia peeblesianas (Croizat) Kladiwa
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Revision as of 20:00, 24 September 2019

Plants branched or unbranched. Stems gray-green, obovoid, globose or depressed-globose, 2–6.5 × 1.5–5.5 cm; areoles circular, lanulose. Spines soft and corky or spongy, harder at tips, white to pale gray, all radial or with 1 central and sometimes 0–1 intermediate spines per areole; radial spines 3–7 per areole, 2–9 × 0.5–1 mm; intermediate spines curved upward, 8–21 × 0.7–1.5 mm; central spine, when present, 5–18 × 1 mm. Flowers 1–1.4 × 1.5–2.5 cm; scales and outer tepals minutely toothed or denticulate or entire and undulate; outer tepals with brown-purple midstripes, oblanceolate, 5–13 × 2–4.5 mm; inner tepals cream, yellow, or yellowish green, lanceolate, 6–12(–15) mm. Fruits green, drying reddish brown, turbinate, 6–11 × 5–8 mm. Seeds dark brown to black, 3 × 2 mm, papillate and rugose.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Central spines 0; radial spines (3-)4(-5) per areole; stems unbranched Pediocactus peeblesianus subsp. peeblesi
1 Central spines (0-)1; radial spines 6-7 per areole; stems 0-4-branched Pediocactus peeblesianus subsp. fickeise