Echinocereus nicholii

Echinocereus nicholii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Echinocereeae
Genus: Echinocereus
Sectio: E. sect. Erecti
Species: Echinocereus nicholii

Name

• Echinocereus nicholii (L.D.Benson) B.D.Parfitt, Phytologia 63(3): 157. 1987.

Note

The specific epithet nicholii honors the American biologist Andrew Alexander Nichol (1895–1961).

Synonyms

• Echinocereus engelmannii var. nicholii L.D.Benson in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 258, pl. 25, f. B. 1944 syn. sec. Parfitt & Gibson 2003
• Echinocereus nicholii subsp. nicholii syn. sec. ???

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Echinocereus nicholii Continental: Northern America Regional: Western Central USA S. Arizona Regional: Mexico Mexico (Sonora). References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Parfitt, B.D. 1987. Phytologia 63(3): 157.

Additional references

• Korotkova, N., Aquino, D., Arias, S., Eggli, U., Franck, A. , Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Guerrero, P.C., Hernández, H.M., Kohlbecker, A., Köhler, M., Luther, K., Majure, L.C., Müller, A., Metzing, D., Nyffeler, R., Sánchez, D., Schlumpberger, B. & Berendsohn, W.G. 2021. Cactaceae at Caryophyllales. org–a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. Willdenowia 51(2): 251–270. DOI: 10.3372/wi.51.51208 Reference page. 

Links

• Korotkova, N. et al. 2021. Echinocereus nicholii in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 11. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Echinocereus nicholii in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 11. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Echinocereus nicholii. Published online. Accessed: Dec 11 2021.
• Tropicos.org 2021. Echinocereus nicholii. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 Dec 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Echinocereus nicholii. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Dec 11. Reference page. 
• eFloras 2008. Echinocereus nicholii in Flora of North America . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Vernacular names

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