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Echinocactus platyacanthus

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Internal ID UUID644018d84e72a428599027
Scientific name Echinocactus platyacanthus
Authority Link & Otto
First published in in Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 3: 423. 1827.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melocactus tuberculatus Link & Otto in Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 3: t. 26. 1827.
Melocactus platyacanthus Link & Otto in Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 3: t. 14. 1827.
Melocactus ingens Karw. ex Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 54. 1837.
Coryphantha poselgeriana var. saltillensis (Poselg.) L.Bremer in Cact. Suc. Mex. 22: 16. 1977.
Echinocactus arachnoideus Scheidw. in Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 6: 90. 1839.
Echinocactus aulacogonus Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 14. 1839.
Echinocactus aulacogonus var. diacopaulax Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 15. 1839.
Echinocactus edulis Haage ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 346. 1846.
Echinocactus ghiesbreghtianus Lem. Hort. Universel 1: 227. 1839.
Echinocactus grandis Rose in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 10: 126. 1906.
Echinocactus grandis subsp. polycormus Říha & Tabasco in Kaktusy (Brno) 33: 81. 1997.
Echinocactus grandis f. polycormus Říha & Tabasco in Kaktusy (Brno) 33: 81. 1997.
Echinocactus helophorus Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 12. 1839.
Echinocactus helophorus var. laevior Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 13. 1839.
Echinocactus helophorus var. longifossulatus Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 13. 1839.
Echinocactus ingens Zucc. ex Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 54. 1837.
Echinocactus ingens f. aulocogonus (Lem.) Schelle Kakteen: 189. 1926.
Echinocactus ingens var. helophorus (Lem.) K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 317. 1898.
Echinocactus ingens f. helophorus (Lem.) Schelle Handb. Kakteenkult.: 149. 1907.
Echinocactus ingens var. saltillensis (Poselg.) K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 317. 1898.
Echinocactus ingens f. saltillensis (Poselg.) Schelle Handb. Kakteenkult.: 149. 1907.
Echinocactus ingens var. subinermis K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 317. 1898.
Echinocactus ingens f. viznaga (Hook.) Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn. 1: 372. 1894.
Echinocactus ingens var. viznaga (Hook.) K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 317. 1898.
Echinocactus irroratus Scheidw. in Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 6: 90. 1839.
Echinocactus karwinskii Zucc. ex Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 50. 1837.
Echinocactus macracanthus de Vriese in Tijdschr. Nat. Geschied. 6: 49. 1839.
Echinocactus minax Lem. Cact. Aliq. Nov.: 18. 1838.
Echinocactus minax var. laevior Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 86. 1839.
Echinocactus oligacanthus Mart. ex Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 53. 1837.
Echinocactus oligacanthus Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck.: 31. 1850.
Echinocactus palmeri Rose in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 290. 1909.
Echinocactus platyacanthus f. grandis (Rose) Bravo in Cact. Suc. Mex. 25: 64. 1980.
Echinocactus platyacanthus var. palmeri (Rose) H.P.Kelsey & Dayton Standard. Pl. Names: 70. 1942.
Echinocactus platyacanthus f. visnaga (Hook.) Bravo in Cact. Suc. Mex. 25: 65. 1980.
Echinocactus platyceras Lem. Cact. Aliq. Nov.: 19. 1838.
Echinocactus saltillensis Poselg. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 21: 101. 1853.
Echinocactus tuberculatus Link & Otto in Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 3: 425. 1827.
Echinocactus tuberculatus var. spiralis DC. in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 17: 115. 1828.
Echinocactus viznaga Hook. in Gard. Chron. 1845: 133. 1845.
Echinofossulocactus helophorus (Lem.) Lawr. in Gard. Mag. (London) 17: 318. 1841.
Echinofossulocactus karwinskianus Lawr. in Gard. Mag. (London) 17: 318. 1841.
Echinofossulocactus platyceras (Lem.) Lawr. in Gard. Mag. (London) 17: 318. 1841.
Echinocactus ingens var. grandis Speg. in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 116. 1907.
Echinocactus platyceras var. laevior C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 325. 1846.
Echinocactus platyceras var. minax Salm-Dyck ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 324. 1846.
Echinocactus karwinskianus Burkart in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 1: 126. 1891.
Echinocactus visnaga Hook. in Gard. Chron. 1845: 133. 1845.
Echinocactus saltillensis Poselger 1853

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Language Common/alternative name
English cactus
Spanish biznaga burra
Spanish biznaga de acitrón
Lithuanian plačiadyglis ežiakaktusis
Swedish igelkottskaktus
Chinese 广刺球
Chinese 鬼头丸
Chinese 弁庆

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    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
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World Flora Online wfo-0000660808
Tropicos 5105048
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:132080-1
The Plant List kew-2782169
Open Tree Of Life 493241
NCBI Taxonomy 130113
IUCN Red List 152537
IPNI 132080-1
iNaturalist 207186
GBIF 7279711
Freebase /m/065zkc3
EPPO EHNPL
EOL 5183437
Wikipedia Echinocactus_platyacanthus

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Effects of copal resin extraction on the diversity and composition of species in tropical deciduous forests García-Núñez RM, Buendía-Espinoza JC, del Carmen Arrazate-Jiménez S, del Carmen Martínez-Ochoa E Sci Rep 14-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10014994
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31423-z
PMID:36918726
Adaptation and biocultural conservation of traditional agroforestry systems in the Tehuacán Valley: access to resources and livelihoods strategies Vázquez-Delfin P, Casas A, Vallejo M Heliyon 27-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9254342
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09805
PMID:35800250
Geometric Models for Seed Shape Description and Quantification in the Cactaceae Martín-Gómez JJ, del Pozo DG, Tocino Á, Cervantes E Plants (Basel) 22-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8620750
doi:10.3390/plants10112546
PMID:34834909
Growth Patterns in Seedling Roots of the Pincushion Cactus Mammillaria Reveal Trends of Intra- and Inter-Specific Variation González-Sánchez JD, Santiago-Sandoval I, Lara-González JA, Colchado-López J, Cervantes CR, Vélez P, Reyes-Santiago J, Arias S, Rosas U Front Plant Sci 08-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8531529
doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.750623
PMID:34691127
Blurring the Boundaries between a Branch and a Flower: Potential Developmental Venues in CACTACEAE Rosas-Reinhold I, Piñeyro-Nelson A, Rosas U, Arias S Plants (Basel) 03-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8228900
doi:10.3390/plants10061134
PMID:34204904
Ethnobotanical biocultural diversity by rural communities in the Cuatrociénegas Valley, Coahuila; Mexico Estrada-Castillón E, Villarreal-Quintanilla JÁ, Encina-Domínguez JA, Jurado-Ybarra E, Cuéllar-Rodríguez LG, Garza-Zambrano P, Arévalo-Sierra JR, Cantú-Ayala CM, Himmelsbach W, Salinas-Rodríguez MM, Gutiérrez-Santillán TV J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 29-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8008621
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00445-0
PMID:33781298
The importance of environmental conditions in maintaining lineage identity in Epithelantha (Cactaceae) Aquino D, Moreno‐Letelier A, González‐Botello MA, Arias S Ecol Evol 11-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8093668
doi:10.1002/ece3.7347
PMID:33976827
Beneficial Plant-Associated Microorganisms From Semiarid Regions and Seasonally Dry Environments: A Review Bonatelli ML, Lacerda-Júnior GV, dos Reis Junior FB, Fernandes-Júnior PI, Melo IS, Quecine MC Front Microbiol 15-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7845453
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.553223
PMID:33519722
Composition, Structure, and PGPR Traits of the Rhizospheric Bacterial Communities Associated With Wild and Cultivated Echinocactus platyacanthus and Neobuxbaumia polylopha de la Torre-Hernández ME, Salinas-Virgen LI, Aguirre-Garrido JF, Fernández-González AJ, Martínez-Abarca F, Montiel-Lugo D, Ramírez-Saad HC Front Microbiol 26-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7333311
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01424
PMID:32676064
Temporal patterns of seed germination in early spring-flowering temperate woodland geophytes are modified by warming Newton RJ, Hay FR, Ellis RH Ann Bot 14-Feb-2020
PMCID:PMC7262466
doi:10.1093/aob/mcaa025
PMID:32055829
Differences in the Structural Chemical Composition of the Primary Xylem of Cactaceae: A Topochemical Perspective Maceda A, Soto-Hernández M, Peña-Valdivia CB, Trejo C, Terrazas T Front Plant Sci 28-Nov-2019
PMCID:PMC6892835
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01497
PMID:31850014
Transcriptomics insights into the genetic regulation of root apical meristem exhaustion and determinate primary root growth in Pachycereus pringlei (Cactaceae) Rodriguez-Alonso G, Matvienko M, López-Valle ML, Lázaro-Mixteco PE, Napsucialy-Mendivil S, Dubrovsky JG, Shishkova S Sci Rep 04-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC5986787
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26897-1
PMID:29867103
High tolerance to high-light conditions for the protected species Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus (Cactaceae) Arroyo-Pérez E, Flores J, González-Salvatierra C, Matías-Palafox ML, Jiménez-Sierra C Conserv Physiol 17-Jul-2017
PMCID:PMC5511894
doi:10.1093/conphys/cox042
PMID:28729902
Wood Chemical Composition in Species of Cactaceae: The Relationship between Lignification and Stem Morphology Reyes-Rivera J, Canché-Escamilla G, Soto-Hernández M, Terrazas T PLoS One 16-Apr-2015
PMCID:PMC4399841
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123919
PMID:25880223
Effects of natural and artificial selection on survival of columnar cacti seedlings: the role of adaptation to xeric and mesic environments Guillén S, Terrazas T, Casas A Ecol Evol 25-Mar-2015
PMCID:PMC4485958
doi:10.1002/ece3.1478
PMID:26140193

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