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Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa (buckhorn cholla)

Synonyms: Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, commonly referred to as buck horn cholla, is a cactus native to the deserts of southern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and Arizona in the United States. The plant is found in the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran Deserts, including the Colorado Desert of California.
View Wikipedia Record: Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa

Infraspecies

Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa acanthocarpa
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa coloradensis (Colorado buckhorn cholla)
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa major (buckhorn cholla)
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa var. thornberi (Thornber's buckhorn cholla)

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Grand Canyon National Park II 1210128 Arizona, United States

Predators

Dactylopius tomentosus (Devil's rope pear scale)[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0