Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Name:
Ferocactus histrix (De Candolle) Lindsay Cact. Succ. J. (US) 27 (4): 171 (1955)
Alt. Name:
Basionym:
Echinocactus histrix De Candolle Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 17: 115 (1828)
Synonyms:
Echinocactus melocactiformis De Candolle (1828: 462), [uncertain application]
Echinocactus coulteri Don (1834: 162)
Echinocactus oxypterus Zuccarini ex Pfeiffer (1837a: 57-58)
Echinocactus mammilifer Miquel (1838: 8, 19)
Echinocactus electracanthus Lemaire (1838: 24)
Echinocactus pycnoxyphus Lemaire (1839: 16-17)
Echinocactus hystrichacanthus Lemaire (1839: 17-18)
Echinocactus macracanthus De Vriese (1839: 49-51)
Echinocactus lancifer Reichenbach in Terscheck (ca. 1840)
Echinofossulocactus macracanthus (De Vriese) Lawrence (1841: 318)
Echinofossulocactus oxyptera (Zuccarini ex Pfeiffer) Lawrence (1841: 318)
Echinocactus electracanthus capuliger Monville (1846: 22) nom. nud.
Echinocactus electracanthus var. capuliger Monville ex Labouret (1853: 184)
Echinocactus hystrichacanthus pycnoxyphus (Lemaire) Cels (1858: 12) nom. nud.
Echinocactus electracanthus tetracanthus Weber ex Seitz (1870: 8) nom. nud.
Echinocactus pfersdorffii Lemaire ex Seitz (1870: 8) nom. nud.
Echinocactus pycnoxyphus Schmidtii Blanc (1892: 9)
Echinocactus electracanthus var. rufispinus Ladenberg (1893: 70) nom. nud.
Echinocactus pfersdorffii Hildmann ex Schumann (1895: 92)
Ferocactus melocactiformis (De Candolle) Britton et Rose (1922: 138-139)
Bisnaga electracantha Orcutt (1926: 1)
Echinocactus electracanthus centrispinus Rother ex Schelle (1926: 196) nom. nud.
Echinocactus electracanthus flavispinus hort. ex Schelle (1926: 196) nom. nud.
Ferocactus electracanthus (Lemaire) Backeberg (1937: 13)
Ferocactus coulteri (Don) Ito (1958)
Ferocactus coulteri f. cristatus hort. ex Ito (1981: 499) nom. nud.
Ferocactus coulteri f. aureovariegatus hort. ex Ito (1981: 499) nom. nud.
Ferocactus coulteri var. rufispinus Ito (1981: 499) nom.inval. (ICBN Art. 37.1 1988)
Bisnaga histrix (De Candolle) Doweld (1999: 28)
Type:
Lectotype: Water-colour plate by Heyland, annotated by De Candolle and preserved in Herbier Delessert, Geneva. Designated by Lindsay, Cact. Succ. J. (US) 27 (4): 172, fig. 159 (1955)
Type Locality:
Presumable Zimapan, Hidalgo
Distribution:
Mexico: Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo
Altitude:
1200 – 2600 m
Collection No:
SB369, 1877; Lau1415; Rep345
Flowering:
Extra Info:
Subgenus Bisnaga (juicy fruit)
Compiler:
Unger, Gottfried / at / 2018.2.15.
