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| Jepson eFlora
Key to families | Table of families and genera This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press. Text appearing in blue on this page will not appear in the printed book; it will be displayed only on the Web. Specimen numbers are hyperlinked to records in the Consortium of California Herbaria data view where possible. Taxa are hyperlinked to entries in the Jepson Interchange via the "[Online Interchange]" link. |
Generally erect to ascending, [sprawling, pendent, or decumbent], branched or not, branches generally few–500, occasionally in dense mounds.
Stem: [2]5–60[200]cm, (1)4–15 cm diam, spheric to long- cylindric, soft, not regularly segmented; ribs prominent, 4–13[26], tubercles ± 0 along rib-crests.
Spines: [0]4–55 per areole, < 2 mm diam, needle- to dagger-like, glabrous to puberulent, straight, curved, or curly; central spines (0)1–6(9).
Flower: lateral, near distal margin of spine cluster; perianth purple to lavender, orange, or red [yellow or green]; ovary glabrous, spiny, scales minute.
Fruit: spheric to obovoid, indehiscent or splitting laterally, densely spiny, spine clusters deciduous.
Seed: 0.8–2 mm, obovoid to ± spheric, dull, wrinkled or tubercled, generally black.
49 species: sw US, Mex. (Greek: hedgehog + Cereus) [Taylor 1985 The Genus Echinocereus. Timber Press]
1. Perianth ± purple to lavender, inner perianth parts generally acuminate to bristle-tipped; anthers yellow; spines glabrous, at least 1 central spine generally angular to flat ..... E. engelmannii
1' Perianth orange to red, inner perianth parts round to notched; anthers pink to purple; spines < 1 yr old minutely puberulent especially near tip, all ± angular ..... E. mojavensis
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Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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