Original Description: Piante Grasse 30 (4)
p.115 - Davide Donati (2011)body cespitose, forming
groups over 3 m wide and more than 40 cm
tall; formed by dense, initially erect and
after prostrate chains of joints; root
napiform but thin; segments big and elongate, 15 X 4 cm; central spines 4 (sometimes 8), 5-10 cm long, generally flattened,
very pungent, rough, yellow-pinkish; radial
spines 6-12, approx. 5-20 mm long, whitish; glochids small, whitish, few; flower 4 to
5 cm broad, red, with light yellow-greenish
throat, filaments yellow, receptacle slightly
tuberculate, with white glochids and thin,
long spines; fruit dry, clavate, spiny, 5 cm
long, with persistent perianth residuals;
seeds subcircular, 3,5-6 mm diam., flattened, beige.
Type: MEXICO. COAHUILA: Mpio. San
Pedro de las Colonias, North of San Pedro
de las Colonias, on alluvial plains, 850 m,
June 2009, Hinton et al. 29067 (holotype
Herbarium of Geo. B. Hinton; Isotype
MEXU).
Distribution: endemic of the Mexican state
of Coahuila, on loamy, alluvial plains,
where it grows with C. bulbispina, C. grahamii, C. moelleri, Coryphantha werdermannii, Echinocactus horizonthalonius, etc. Dedicated to Mr. Francesco GUCCINI: his
words made me thinking many times during
my life. View Latin Description
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