Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Name:
Ferocactus californicus (Monville ex Labouret) Borg Cacti: 235 (1937)
Alt. Name:
Ferocactus × californicus (Monville ex Labouret) Borg (pro sp.) Cacti: 235 (1937); Unger, Kugelkakt. Nordamer.: 220 -224 (1992)
Basionym:
Echinocactus californicus Monville ex Labouret Monogr. Cact.: 199 (1853)
Synonyms:
Echinocactus californicus Monville Cat. Plant. Exot.: 22 (1846) nom. nud.
Echinocactus californicus hort. ex Ruempler in Foerster Handb. Cacteenk. (ed. 2): 472 (1885)
Ferocactus californicus (Labouret) Ito Cact.: 103 (1952)
Type:
Indeterminate.
Lindsay in Taxon. Ecol. Gen. Feroc.: 332 fig. 128 (1956) published an image of a Herbarium specimen, said to be in the George Engelmann collection, Missouri Botanical Garden (dried flower, Pfersdorff Paris 1872 as Echinocactus Californicus Lemaire).
Type Locality:
Distribution:
Mexico: Northern and central Baja California Sur, from around San Ignacio to south of Loreto
Altitude:
Sea level to nearly 1600 m
Collection No:
Flowering:
Hours:
8 - 9, Late Summertime
Extra Info:
Name for populations of hybrids between F. peninsulae and F. rectispinus which are common in various places.
Compiler:
Unger, Gottfried / at / 2018.3.15.
