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Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium

(ASU:Plants)

Catalog #: ASU0057993

Occurrence ID (GUID): 34e10ba0-713d-4076-8b4b-aa69652d099b

Secondary Catalog #: 197543

Determiner: Jon P. Rebman (1994)

Collector: Marc A. Baker

Number: 11322

Date: 1994-02-20

Locality: Mexico, Baja California Sur, Mesa los Pinos; ca. 10 km SW of the summit of Volcan Tres Vírgenes; just north of Arroyo el Mesquital.

27.39167  -112.6639

Verbatim Coordinates: 27d 23m 30s N, 112d 39m 50s W

Elevation: 300 meters (984ft)

Habitat: Flat of pumice gravel and sand.

Associated Species: Jatropha cinerea, Larrea tridentata, Lophocereus schottii, Machaerocereus gummosus, Opuntia cholla, Pachycereus pringlei

Description: Densely branched shrub 1.3 m tall, forming thickets several meters broad; trunks generally less than 5 cm diameter, decumbent; secondary branches variously angled; ultimate branches very easily detached; spines red-brown, paler toward tip, sheaths brown to very pale yellow-brown, brown toward tip; fruit yellow to green-yellow, generally spineless, smooth when ftill of seeds; seeds per fruit: 2, 12, 5, 3, 11, 4, 3, 11, 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 3 ,8, 5, 1, 9, 21.

Record ID: 34e10ba0-713d-4076-8b4b-aa69652d099b

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)