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Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium

(ASU:Plants)

Catalog #: ASU0057996

Occurrence ID (GUID): b287f157-7299-431b-a0e7-cb4485ceff09

Secondary Catalog #: 197688

Determiner: Jon P. Rebman (1994)

Collector: Marc A. Baker

Number: 11303

Date: 1994-02-19

Locality: Mexico, Baja California, 2.8 mi, by road, north of the junction of road to Bahia de Los Angeles, along MEX Hwy 1; just east of Arroyo El Crucero.

29.0875  -114.1667

Verbatim Coordinates: 29d 05m 15s N, 114d 10m 00s W

Elevation: 400 meters (1312ft)

Habitat: Silty plain.

Associated Species: Agave shawii, Ambrosia dumosa, Encelia californica, Fouquieria columnaris, Jatropha cinerea, Machaerocereus gummosus, Opuntia cholla, Pachycereus pringlei, Prosopis glandulosa, Pedilanthus macrocarpus, Viscainoa geniculata, Yucca valida

Description: Densely branched polypodial shrub 1.8 m tall, 1.5 m broad, trunks to 5 cm diameter; secondary branches mostly ascending; ultimate branches very easily detached and cloning; spines very pale yellow-brown, sheaths translucent-white below, yellow- brown above; this is the first individual of this morphology I have seen with plump fruits, these pyriform, pale green-yellow; seeds per fruit: 13, 17, 9, 85, 14, 18, 23, 40, 5, 4, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 18.

Record ID: b287f157-7299-431b-a0e7-cb4485ceff09

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)