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Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium

(ASU:Plants)

Catalog #: ASU0058895

Occurrence ID (GUID): 7ce07d91-b7c2-4b72-b8a0-9346ae9cbbec

Secondary Catalog #: 232453

Collector: Marc A. Baker

Number: 12829

Date: 1998-04-14

Locality: Mexico, Coahuila, Perros Bravos, hill to the immediate NE of the abandoned railroad station.

25.875  -100.9583

Verbatim Coordinates: 25d 52.5m N, 100d 57.5m W

Elevation: 850 meters (2788ft)

Habitat: Rocky hillside of light brown-oxidized limestone.

Associated Species: Aloe barbados, Echinocactus horizonthalonius, Echinocactus stramineus, Fouquieria splendens, Jatropha dioica, O. bulbispina, O. kleiniae, O. leptocaulis, O. rufida, Prosopis glandulosa

Description: Apparently clonal shrub 1.8 m tall from three trunks, the largest 12 cm diameter with dark gray rough bark, younger bark rather smooth, gray-brown with withered spines, older stems with proliferating spines; young branches gray-green, the smaller easily detached; spines pale straw-colored; sheath even paler, both rather uniform in color; fruit obovoid to globose, to 4 cm diameter, smooth, except for uppermost areoles; flowers red-purple.

Notes: Paredon 1:50,000 cetenal quadrangle; N28 63 200 E03 03 115 (NAD 83); n=11 during meiosis of microgametogenesis

Record ID: 7ce07d91-b7c2-4b72-b8a0-9346ae9cbbec

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)