Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Name:
Ferocactus echidne (De Candolle) Britton & Rose subsp. echidne,
The Cactaceae 3: 136, 1922
Alt. Name:
Basionym:
Echinocactus echidne De Candolle Coll. Mem. 8: 19-20, t.11. 1834
Synonyms:
Echinocactus vanderaeyi Lem. Cact. Nov. Hort. Monv.: 20. 1838
Echinocactus dolichocanthus Lem. Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. Nov.: 25. 1839
Echinocactus dolichacanthus minor Lem.: 86. 1839
Echinofossulocactus vanderaeyi (Lem.) Lawrence: 318. 1841
Echinofossulocactus vanderaeyi ignota longispina Lawrence: 318. 1841
Echinofossulocactus echidne (De Candolle) Lawrence: 318. 1841
Echinocactus dolichocentrus Lem. ex Salm-Dyck: 22 nom. nud. 1845
Echinocactus echidne vanderaeyi (Lem.) Monville: 22. 1846
Echinocactus echidne gilvus (Dietrich) Salm-Dyck: 27. 1849
Echinocactus gilvus Dietr. Allgem. Gartenzeit. 13: 170 – 171. 1845
Echinocactus rafaelensis J. A. Purpus Monatsschr. Kakt. 22 (11): 163. 1912
Ferocactus rafaelensis (J. A. Purpus) Borg, Cacti: 236. 1937
Parrycactus echidne (DC.) Doweld, Nov. Sys. Plant. Vasc.: 118. 2000
Type:
Lectotype: Plate 11 in Coll. Mem. 8 (illustration by Heyland) 1834, designated by Taylor in Bradleya 2: 22, (1984).
Neotype: Bravo 34/22 Hidalgo, Venados DS 374961, Barcode 2428. Dudley Herbarium Stanford, designated by Lindsay The Taxonomy and Ecology of the Genus Ferocactus: 68 (1955).
Type Locality:
Lectotype: Mexico, Hidalgo, probably Zimapan (cf. Mc Vaugh: The travels of Thomas Coulter, 1824 – 1827 in: Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 33: 65-70; 1943).
Neotype: Mexico, Hidalgo, Los Venados.
Distribution:
Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas
Altitude:
300 – 1900 m
Collection No:
Lindsay2069
Flowering:
Extra Info:
Subgenus Bisnaga (juicy fruit).
Compiler:
Unger, Gottfried / at / 2018.2.15.
