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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium Collection
Catalog #: DES00060762
Taxon: Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. nicholii L. Benson
Family: Cactaceae
Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   23232   
Date: 21 July 2008
Additional Collectors: Kathy Rice
Locality: USA, Arizona, Pima County, Cultivated at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona, accession number 1993 0509 0151, originally collected by Linda Pritchett-Kozak, 8 October 1992, from Waterman Mountains, 14 miles west of I-17 on Avra Valley Road.
32.35  -111.483333
Verbatim Coordinates: 32d 21m N; 111d 29m W
Elevation: 868 meters
Verbatim Elevation: 2850ft.
Description: Single-stemmed, stem blue-gray, flower 42(l)x66(w) mm, hypanthium fuzzy, (and ovary) small, bracts green-brown, outer perianth green-brown with light pink margins, dark bright-pink tips, inner perianth pink with darker midstripe, narrowly spathulate, narrowed towards base, filaments cream-yellow at base becoming cream-white towards apices, anthers light yellow, style white-pink, stigma lobes pink, darker towards apex, 4.
Notes: Cultivated
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