Echinocereus viereckii

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Echinocereus viereckii Werderm.
Kakteenkunde 1934: 188, fig. 1934
Family: CACTACEAE

Origin and Habitat: Tamaulipas (Mexico, Northern America)

Synonyms:

Echinocereus viereckii Werderm.

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viereckii Werderm.
Kakteenkunde 1934: 188, fig. 1934

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viereckii subs. huastecensis W.Blum, Mich.Lange & Rutow
Echinocereus Monogr. (preprint) [9] (1998).

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viereckii subs. morricalii (Říha) N.P.Taylor
Cactaceae Consensus Init. 3: 10. 1997
Synonymy: 3

Echinocereus viereckii subs. morricalii (Říha) N.P.Taylor

Echinocereus morricalii Říha
Echinocereus viereckii var. morricalii (Říha) N.P.Taylor

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Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Echinocereus viereckii group

Echinocereus viereckii Werderm.: (subsp. viereckii) has spines that are rarely longer than 2,5 cm and 6 to 9 tuberculate ribs.
Echinocereus viereckii subs. huastecensis W.Blum, Mich.Lange & Rutow: has spines that are up to about 10 cm long and 8 to 13 ribs.
Echinocereus viereckii subs. morricalii (Říha) N.P.Taylor: is spineless or nearly spineless and has 6 or 7 non-tubercled ribs.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Guadalupe Martínez, J. 2013. Echinocereus viereckii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 November 2014.
2) Edward F. Anderson "The Cactus Family." Timber Press, Portland (Oregon) 2001
3) Curt Backeberg, Frederik Marcus Knuth: “Kaktus-ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk og amatører.” Kopenhagen 1936
4) Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila “Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko-Stadt 2003
5) Werdermann: Kakteenkunde Organ der Deutschen Kakteen-Gesellschaft E.V., Berlin 1934, page. 188
6) Říha: Kaktusy (Brno). 11: 75 1974
7) W. Blum, M. Lange, W. Rischer, J. Rutow "Echinocereus" Preprint, 1998
8) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey "The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass" Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug/2011
9) David R Hunt; Nigel P Taylor; Graham Charles; International Cactaceae Systematics Group. "The New Cactus Lexicon" dh books, 2006

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