Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Name:
Ferocactus acanthodes (Lemaire) Britton & Rose subsp. acanthodes
The Cactaceae 3: 129 (1922)
Alt. Name:
Basionym:
Echinocactus acanthodes Lemaire Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp.: 106 (1839)
Synonyms:
Echinocactus viridescens cylindraceus Engelmann Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2 (14): 338 (1852)
Echinocactus cylindraceus (Engelmann) Engelmann Syn. Cact. US. 19: 275 (1856)
Echinocactus cylindraceus longispinus Walton (1898: 54)
Echinocactus Leopoldi hort. ex Schumann (1898: 357)
Ferocactus rostii Britton et Rose (1922: 146)
Ferocactus cylindraceus (Engelmann) Orcutt (1926: 5)
Echinocactus cylindraceus latispinus hort. ex Schelle (1926: 206)
Echinocactus cylindraceus albispinus hort. ex Schelle (1926: 206)
Echinocactus cylindraceus chrysacanthus hort. ex Schelle (1926: 206) nom. nud.
Echinocactus cylindraceus var. albicans Graeser (1927: 90)
Echinocactus rostii (Britton et Rose) Berger (1929: 238)
Echinocactus acanthodes var. rostii (Britton et Rose) Munz (1935: 328)
Ferocactus acanthodes var. rostii (Britton et Rose) Marshall et Bock (1941: 148)
Ferocactus acanthodes var. albispinus (hort. ex Schelle) Ito (1954: ) comb. inval.
Ferocactus acanthodes var. chrysacanthus (hort. ex Schelle) Ito (1954: ) comb. inval.
Ferocactus acanthodes var. eastwoodiae Benson Cacti Arizona , ed. 3: 126 (1969)
Ferocactus cylindraceus var. chrysacanthus (hort. ex Schelle) Ito (1981: 490) comb. inval.?
Ferocactus eastwoodiae (Benson) Benson Cacti U. S. & Canada: 969 (1982)
Ferocactus cylindraceus var. eastwoodiae (Benson) Taylor Bradleya 2: 33 (1984)
Ferocactus cylindraceus subsp. eastwoodiae (Benson) Taylor Cact. Syst. Init. 14: 16 (2002)
Ferocactus acanthodes subsp. eastwoodiae (Benson) Lodé Cact. Avent. Int. 98 Suppl.: 4 (2013)
Type:
Neotype: Parry s. n. (MGB, holotype of Echinocactus cylindraceus) selected by Lindsay (1956) Taxon. Ecolog. Gen. Ferocact. A proposal to reject the name Echinocactus acanthodes Lem. was not recommended, Taxon 60: 910. (2011)
Type Locality:
USA: California, San Diego County, near San Felipe, eastern declivity of the California Mountains, c. 33° N
Distribution:
USA and Mexico: California, Baja California, Arizona, Sonora
Altitude:
60 – 1500 m
Collection No:
Lindsay2063, Lau1251, Rep200, SB1906
Flowering:
Hours:
4 - 6, Springtime to early Summer
Extra Info:
Extreme variable species and all efforts to differentiate in infraspecific taxa (lecontei, eastwoodiae; tortulispinus) remained unsatisfactory as they overlap in their distribution as well as their inconstant characters.
Compiler:
Unger, Gottfried / at / 2018.3.15.
