Difference between revisions of "Echinocactus horizonthalonius"

Lemaire

Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov., 19. 1839.

Common names: Blue barrel cactus visnaga meloncillo
Synonyms: Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. nicholii L. D. Benson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 189. Mentioned on page 186.
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="plant architecture"><b>Plants </b>normally unbranched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem coloration;stem coloration;stem coloration;stem shape;stem shape;stem location;stem shape;stem height or length or size;stem shape;stem atypical length;stem length;stem atypical width;stem width"><b>Stems </b>pale gray-green to bright gray-blue, flat-topped or hemispheric and deep-seated in substrate, spheric with age or stoutly short cylindric (remaining hemispheric at high elevations), 4–25 (–45) × 8–15 (–20) cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="rib atypical count;rib atypical count;rib count;rib orientation;rib course;rib crest shape;rib crest architecture;rib crest size">ribs (7–) 8 (–9), vertical to helically curving around stem, rib crests broadly rounded, uninterrupted or slightly constricted between areoles.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="spine atypical count;spine atypical count;spine count;spine orientation;spine orientation;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine coloration;spine shape;spine shape;spine shape;spine pubescence"><b>Spines </b>(5–) 8 (–10) per areole, loosely projecting or strongly decurved, pink, gray, tan, or brown, strongly annulate-ridged, subulate, ± flattened, glabrous, generally not hiding stem surface;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="spine arrangement;spine atypical count;spine count">radial spines 5 (–8) per areole, similar to central spines;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="central spine atypical count;central spine count;central spine length;central spine atypical width;central spine width;longest spine orientation;longest spine course;longest spine length">central spines 1 (–3) per areole, 18–43 × 1–2.5 (–3) mm, longest spine usually descending, straight or decurved throughout its length.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower length;flower atypical width;flower width"><b>Flowers </b>5–7 × 5–6.5 (–9.5) cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="inner tepal coloration;inner tepal coloration;inner tepal color;inner tepal length;inner tepal width;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape">inner tepals bright-rose-pink or magenta, color ± uniform from base to apex, 3 × 1.5 cm, margins entire to serrate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stigma lobe coloration;stigma lobe coloration;stigma lobe coloration">stigma lobes pinkish to olive.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="fruit dehiscence;fruit dehiscence;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit shape;pore position;pore life cycle;surface prominence;surface condition;shell coloration;shell some measurement"><b>Fruits </b>indehiscent or weakly dehiscent through basal abscission pore, pink or red, spheric to ovoid-cylindric, surfaces partly or entirely hidden by hairs from axils of scales and long areolar hairs of stem apex, usually quickly drying to tan shell before seed dispersal, 10–30 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="scale count;tip coloration;tip shape;tip pubescence">scales several, tips dark, spinelike, glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="seed coloration;seed coloration;seed arrangement or shape;seed relief;seed shape;seed shape;seed shape;seed some measurement"><b>Seeds </b>black or gray, angular or slightly wrinkled, spheric to obovoid, 2–3 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pattern fragility;pattern arrangement;cell-wall prominence;cell-wall orientation">testa cell surfaces slightly convex, with weak network pattern of slightly protruding anticlinal cell-walls.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="testa cell surface shape;2n chromosome count">2n = 22.</span><!--
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>normally unbranched. <b>Stems</b> pale gray-green to bright gray-blue, flat-topped or hemispheric and deep-seated in sub-strate, spheric with age or stoutly short cylindric (remaining hemispheric at high elevations), 4–25(–45) × 8–15(–20) cm; ribs (7–)8(–9), vertical to helically curving around stem, rib crests broadly rounded, uninterrupted or slightly constricted between areoles. <b>Spines</b> (5–)8(–10) per areole, loosely projecting or strongly decurved, pink, gray, tan, or brown, strongly annulate-ridged, subulate, ± flattened, glabrous, generally not hiding stem surface; radial spines 5(–8) per areole, similar to central spines; central spines 1(–3) per areole, 18–43 × 1–2.5(–3) mm, longest spine usually descending, straight or decurved throughout its length. <b>Flowers</b> 5–7 × 5–6.5(–9.5) cm; inner tepals bright rose-pink or magenta, color ± uniform from base to apex, 3 × 1.5 cm, margins entire to serrate; stigma lobes pinkish to olive. <b>Fruits</b> indehiscent or weakly dehiscent through basal abscission pore, pink or red, spheric to ovoid-cylindric, surfaces partly or entirely hidden by hairs from axils of scales and long areolar hairs of stem apex, usually quickly drying to tan shell before seed dispersal, 10–30 mm; scales several, tips dark, spinelike, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> black or gray, angular or slightly wrinkled, spheric to obovoid, 2–3 mm; testa cell surfaces slightly convex, with weak network pattern of slightly protruding anticlinal cell walls. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--
  
 
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|habitat=Arid rocky slopes, primarily limestone
 
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|elevation=600-1700(-2500) m
 
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|elevation=600-1700(-2500) m
 
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|publication year=1839
 
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
 
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|genus=Echinocactus
 
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|species=Echinocactus horizonthalonius
 
|species=Echinocactus horizonthalonius
|2n chromosome count=22
 
|cell-wall orientation=anticlinal
 
|cell-wall prominence=protruding
 
|central spine atypical count=1;3
 
|central spine atypical width=2.5mm;3mm
 
|central spine count=1
 
|central spine length=18mm;43mm
 
|central spine width=1mm;2.5mm
 
|flower atypical width=6.5cm;9.5cm
 
|flower length=5cm;7cm
 
|flower width=5cm;6.5cm
 
|fruit coloration=red;pink
 
|fruit dehiscence=dehiscent;indehiscent
 
|fruit shape=spheric;ovoid-cylindric
 
|inner tepal color=uniform
 
|inner tepal coloration=magenta;bright-rose-pink
 
|inner tepal length=3
 
|inner tepal width=1.5
 
|longest spine course=straight
 
|longest spine length=decurved
 
|longest spine orientation=descending
 
|margin architecture or shape=entire;serrate
 
|pattern arrangement=network
 
|pattern fragility=weak
 
|plant architecture=unbranched
 
|pore life cycle=abscission
 
|pore position=basal
 
|rib atypical count=8;9
 
|rib count=8
 
|rib course=curving
 
|rib crest architecture=uninterrupted
 
|rib crest shape=rounded
 
|rib crest size=constricted
 
|rib orientation=vertical
 
|scale count=several
 
|seed arrangement or shape=angular
 
|seed coloration=gray;black
 
|seed relief=wrinkled
 
|seed shape=spheric;obovoid
 
|seed some measurement=2mm;3mm
 
|shell coloration=tan
 
|shell some measurement=10mm;30mm
 
|spine arrangement=radial
 
|spine atypical count=5;8
 
|spine coloration=brown;tan;brown;tan;gray;pink
 
|spine count=5;8
 
|spine orientation=decurved;projecting
 
|spine pubescence=glabrous
 
|spine shape=flattened;subulate;annulate-ridged
 
|stem atypical length=25cm;45cm
 
|stem atypical width=15cm;20cm
 
|stem coloration=pale gray-green;bright gray-blue
 
|stem height or length or size=short
 
|stem length=4cm;25cm
 
|stem location=deep-seated
 
|stem shape=cylindric;spheric;hemispheric;flat-topped
 
|stem width=8cm;15cm
 
|stigma lobe coloration=pinkish;olive
 
|surface condition=drying
 
|surface prominence=hidden
 
|testa cell surface shape=convex
 
|tip coloration=dark
 
|tip pubescence=glabrous
 
|tip shape=spinelike
 
 
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Revision as of 14:07, 27 July 2019

Plants normally unbranched. Stems pale gray-green to bright gray-blue, flat-topped or hemispheric and deep-seated in sub-strate, spheric with age or stoutly short cylindric (remaining hemispheric at high elevations), 4–25(–45) × 8–15(–20) cm; ribs (7–)8(–9), vertical to helically curving around stem, rib crests broadly rounded, uninterrupted or slightly constricted between areoles. Spines (5–)8(–10) per areole, loosely projecting or strongly decurved, pink, gray, tan, or brown, strongly annulate-ridged, subulate, ± flattened, glabrous, generally not hiding stem surface; radial spines 5(–8) per areole, similar to central spines; central spines 1(–3) per areole, 18–43 × 1–2.5(–3) mm, longest spine usually descending, straight or decurved throughout its length. Flowers 5–7 × 5–6.5(–9.5) cm; inner tepals bright rose-pink or magenta, color ± uniform from base to apex, 3 × 1.5 cm, margins entire to serrate; stigma lobes pinkish to olive. Fruits indehiscent or weakly dehiscent through basal abscission pore, pink or red, spheric to ovoid-cylindric, surfaces partly or entirely hidden by hairs from axils of scales and long areolar hairs of stem apex, usually quickly drying to tan shell before seed dispersal, 10–30 mm; scales several, tips dark, spinelike, glabrous. Seeds black or gray, angular or slightly wrinkled, spheric to obovoid, 2–3 mm; testa cell surfaces slightly convex, with weak network pattern of slightly protruding anticlinal cell walls. 2n = 22.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Sep.
Habitat: Arid rocky slopes, primarily limestone
Elevation: 600-1700(-2500) m

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Tex., Mexico.

Discussion

The Sonoran Desert populations of Echinocactus horizonthalonius have been segregated as var. nicholii, but are relatively similar to plants in New Mexico and extreme western Texas. Much greater morphologic diversity exists farther east and in Mexico, where shorter-spined, nearly flat-topped plants, which are more distinctive than the Sonoran Desert populations, have escaped taxonomic distinction.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
Allan D. Zimmerman +  and Bruce D. Parfitt +
Lemaire +
Blue barrel cactus +  and visnaga meloncillo +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +  and Mexico. +
600-1700(-2500) m +
Arid rocky slopes, primarily limestone +
Flowering Apr–Sep. +
Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov., +
Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. nicholii +
Echinocactus horizonthalonius +
Echinocactus +
species +