Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Name:
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer Allg.
Gartenzeitung (Otto 6 Dietrich) 10: 297. 1842
Alt. Name:
Basionym:
Synonyms:
Echinocactus courantianus Lem. ex Labouret Monogr. Cact.: 196 (1853) nom. nud.
Echinocactus lindheimeri Engelmann Cactaceae of the Boundery:1845:246,
Echinocactus platycephalus Muehlenpfordt Allg. Gartenz. 16:9-10 (1848) nom.nudum
Echinocactus texensisi cristata Pirtle Cact. Succ. J. (US) 7:71 (1935) nom. nud.
Echinocactus texensis gourgensii Cels ex Labouret Monogr. Cact.: 196 (1853)
Echinocactus texensis var. longispina Fer. Haage jun. Cact. Kult: 153 (1900)
Echinocactus texensis f. longispinus Schelle Hand. Kakteenkultur: 161 (1907)
Homalocephala texensis (Hopffer) Britton & Rose Britton & Rose,
The Cactaceae 3:181.pl.19 Backeberg,
Die Cactaceae 5:2650
Homalocephala texensis var.gourgensis (Cels ex Labouret) Ito (1952:108),
Echinocactus texensis var.latispinus Ryutanji A Colour Album of Cacti and Succulents' Volume I. (1965:79)nom.nud
Homalacephala texensis var. albiviolaciflora Ito (1988:541)
Homalocephala texensis var. aureovariegata hort. ex Ito (1891: 507) nom. nud.
Type:
Lectotype: Lindheimer 44, "Texas, April, Echinocactus Lindh. bei Braunfels F. Lindh." No. 148823, Barcode 5248065 (Mo), designated by Coulter Cont. US. Nat. Herb. 3 (7): 359 (1896)
Lectotype [for Echinocactus lindheimeri]: "St. Louis, Cult. from Texas, June, 1845", doubtless collected by F. Lindheimer, (Mo); designated by Benson Cact. US and Canada: 951 (1982)
Type Locality:
USA: Texas, near the Colorado River, [Lindheimer]
Distribution:
USA: Texas, north eastern New Mexico, south east tip of Oklahoma; Mexico: Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Durango (San Pedro del Gallo, Zona del Silencio), Zacatecas (Estacion Camacho, Norias, Palmillas).
Altitude:
0 - 1000m
Collection No:
Lau1095, Rep403, 409, 474, 1916a
Flowering:
Extra Info:
Echinocactus texensis var. treculianus (Labouret) hort. ex Rümpler Hand. Kakteenkunde 2.ed.: 504 (1885) is a misaplied name and synonym of Ferocactus hamatacanthus.
Compiler:
Strobl, Johann / Unger Gottfried / at / 2018.3.17.
