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Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium

(ASU:Plants)

Catalog #: ASU0057990

Occurrence ID (GUID): 858fa837-5382-40fb-a5ef-aa4303b3cd16

Secondary Catalog #: 197550

Determiner: Jon P. Rebman (1994)

Collector: Marc A. Baker

Number: 11298

Date: 1994-02-19

Locality: Mexico, Baja California, Ca. 400 m east of MEX Hwy 5; 5.3 mi by road north of the pueblo of Las Arrastras, east of Arroyo Las Arrastras.

29.60833  -114.3958

Verbatim Coordinates: 29d 36m 30s N, 114d 23m 45s W

Elevation: 300 meters (984ft)

Habitat: Sandy wash among granite hills.

Associated Species: Ambrosia dumosa, Cercidium microphyllum, Errazurizia megacarpa, Hymenoclea salsola, Fouquieria splendens, Krameria spinosa, Larrea tridentata, Lophocereus schottii, Mammillaria dioica, Olneya tesota, Opuntia bigelovii, echinocarpa, O. x munzii, O. cineracea, Pachycereus pringlei, Pachycormis discolor

Description: Common shrub to 2 m tall, 4 m broad, from 1-several, generally inclined trunks to ca. 1 dm diameter; older bark dark gray with pale red-brown fissures; secondary branches are ca. 30°, spreading to ascending, occasionally declined; ultimate branches very easily detached, gray-green, glaucous; spines very pale yellow-brown, often with three acute edges, sheaths translucent-white, yellow-brown toward tip; fruit yellow-green and leathery to very pale brown and dry; plants cloning.

Record ID: 858fa837-5382-40fb-a5ef-aa4303b3cd16

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Elizabeth Makings (Elizabeth.Makings@asu.edu)

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Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium (ASU:Plants)