Ferocactus tiburonensis
{{Short description|Species of cactus}}
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| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Ferocactus
| species = tiburonensis
| authority = (G.E.Linds.) Backeb. 1961
| synonyms =
- Echinocactus wislizeni subsp. tiburonensis {{au|(G.E.Linds.) Felger 1970}}
- Ferocactus wislizeni subsp. tiburonensis {{au|(G.E.Linds.) Pilbeam & Bowdery 2005}}
- Ferocactus wislizeni var. tiburonensis {{au|G.E.Linds. 1955}}
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Ferocactus tiburonensis is a species of Ferocactus found in Mexico.{{cite web | title=Ferocactus tiburonensis (G.E.Linds.) Backeb. | website=Plants of the World Online | url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:103684-2 | access-date=2024-04-21}}
Description
Ferocactus tiburonensis is a solitary cactus, reaching up to 1 meter in height and {{cvt|35|cm}} in diameter. It has around 21 slightly tuberous ribs and grooved spines that are hard to distinguish between central and peripheral spines. The four straight or twisted central spines, arranged crosswise, can grow up to {{cvt|9|cm}} long, with the lowest occasionally flattened. Its small, non-bristle-like marginal thorns resemble the central thorns.
The plant blooms from April and May. The funnel-shaped, yellow flowers are up to {{cvt|6|cm}} long and {{cvt|5|cm}} in diameter, while the spherical fruits are yellow, fleshy, and {{cvt|2 to 4|cm}} long.{{cite web | title=Ferocactus tiburonensis | website=LLIFLE | date=2013-08-04 | url=http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/16141/Ferocactus_tiburonensis | ref={{sfnref | LLIFLE | 2013}} | access-date=2024-04-21}}{{cite book | last1=Anderson | first1=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | title=Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon | publisher=Ulmer | publication-place=Stuttgart (Hohenheim) | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page= 297}}
Distribution
The plant is found growing in eastern bajada to Sierra Kunkaak, Tiburón Island and south of Bahía Kino to the vicinity of Tastiota in Sonora, Mexico.{{cite journal | last1=Wilder | first1=Benjamin T| last2=Felger | first2=Richard | title=SUCCULENT PLANT DIVERSITY OF THE SONORAN ISLANDS, GULF OF CALIFORNIA, MEXICO | journal=Haseltonia | volume=14 | date=2018 | issn=1070-0048 | url=https://tumamoc.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/h165_wilder.pdf | pages=148–149}}{{cite book | last1=Felger | first1=R.S. | last2=Wilder | first2=B.T. | last3=Romero-Morales | first3=H. | last4=Ezcurra | first4=E. | title=Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago: Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California | publisher=University of Arizona Press | series=Southwest Center Series | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-8165-0243-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SBzhu4ienYC&pg=PA237 | access-date=2024-04-21 | page=237}}
Taxonomy
George Edmund Lindsay first described the plant as Ferocactus wislizeni var. tiburonensis in 1955, with the specific epithet referring to its occurrence on Tiburón Island, Mexico.{{cite web | title=Cactus and Succulent Journal Nov-Dec 1955: Vol 27 Iss 6 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | website=Internet Archive | date=2023-03-25 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_cactus-and-succulent-journal_nov-dec-1955_27_6/page/166/mode/1up | access-date=2024-04-21}} Curt Backeberg elevated the variety to species rank in 1961.
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External links
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Ferocactus tiburonensis|Ferocactus tiburonensis}}
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