Echinocereus maritimus

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Echinocereus maritimus - Wikipedia

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Echinocereus maritimus

Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Subfamily:	Cactoideae
Genus:	Echinocereus
Species:	E. maritimus
Binomial name
*Echinocereus maritimus* (M.E.Jones) K.Schum. 1898
Synonyms
Cereus maritimus M.E.Jones 1883 Cereus flaviflorus Engelm. ex J.M.Coult. 1896 Echinocereus flaviflorus (Engelm. ex J.M.Coult.) Hildm. 1898 Echinocereus hancockii E.Y.Dawson 1949 Echinocereus maritimus subsp. hancockii (E.Y.Dawson) W.Blum & Rutow 1998 Echinocereus maritimus var. hancockii (E.Y.Dawson) N.P.Taylor 1985 Echinocereus orcuttii Rose ex Orcutt 1926

Echinocereus maritimus is a species of cactus native to Mexico.^[2]

Description

Echinocereus maritimus is a cactus that forms cushions with up to 300 shoots, growing to 40 cm (16 in) high and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in diameter. The light to dark green, cylindrical shoots are 5 to 30 cm (2.0 to 11.8 in) long and 3 to 7 cm (1.2 to 2.8 in) in diameter, with eight to twelve sharp ribs. Initially bright red, the spines turn dirty yellow or gray over time. The seven to ten central spines are flattened, angular, and 3 to 6 cm (1.2 to 2.4 in) long, while the radial spines are 1.5 to 2.5 cm (0.59 to 0.98 in) long.

The bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers appear below the shoot tips, growing up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long and wide. The spherical, thorny fruits start green and turn red as they mature.^[3]

Distribution

Echinocereus maritimus is native to the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and nearby islands growing in coastal desert scrub at elevations between 0 to 50 meters. Plants are found growing along with Euphorbia misera, Agave sebastiana, Bergerocactus emoryi, Lophocereus schottii, Myrtillocactus cochal, Ferocactus fordii, Cylindropuntia prolifera, Cochemiea pondii, Mammillaria brandegeei, and Cochemiea hutchisoniana subsp. louisae .^[4]

Plant growing in habitat in Ensenada, Baja California

Taxonomy

First described as Cereus maritimus by Marcus Eugene Jones in 1883, the species was reclassified by Karl Moritz Schumann in 1897.^[5] The name "maritimus," meaning "relating to the sea," reflects its preferred coastal habitat.^[6]

References

^ Biología, Héctor Hernández (Instituto de; Group), Succulent Plants Specialist (2012-02-06). "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
^ "Echinocereus maritimus (M.E.Jones) K.Schum". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 200. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
^ "Echinocereus maritimus". LLIFLE. 2013-08-04. Retrieved 2024-06-29. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
^ "Botany". The American Naturalist. 17 (9). [University of Chicago Press, American Society of Naturalists]: 970–975. 1883. doi:10.1086/273471. ISSN 0003-0147. JSTOR 2450803. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
^ Schumann, Karl Moritz; Hirscht, Karl. (1899). Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen (Monographia cactacearum) /von Karl Schumann. Neudamm [DeÌ¨bno, Poland?]: J. Neumann. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10394.

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Taxon identifiers
Echinocereus maritimus	Wikidata: Q1280394 Wikispecies: Echinocereus maritimus ARKive: echinocereus-maritimus CoL: 6DVTL EoL: 5176616 GBIF: 7283687 iNaturalist: 273613 IPNI: 87938-2 ITIS: 908003 IUCN: 152134 NCBI: 867015 Open Tree of Life: 535800 Plant List: kew-2782684 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:87938-2 Species+: 27393 Tropicos: 5105395 WFO: wfo-0000661346
Cereus maritimus	Wikidata: Q14947616 CoL: 5XLQV GBIF: 5622912 IPNI: 130413-1 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:130413-1 Tropicos: 5103666

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