Pediocactus knowltonii L.D.Benson

Knowlton's Cactus, Knowlton's Pincushion Cactus, Knowlton's cactus, Knowlton's miniature cactus

No habitat climate 13 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Pediocactus knowltonii is a rare species of cactus known by the common names Knowlton's miniature cactus, Knowlton's pincushion cactus, and Knowlton's minute cactus.

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About the genus · Pediocactus

Pediocactus is a genus of cacti native to the Western United States. The genus comprises between 6 and 11 species, depending upon the authority. Species of this genus are referred to as hedgehog cacti, though that name is also applied to plants from the genera Echinocereus and Echinopsis. More on Wikipedia ›

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Family

Cactaceae

Described by

L.D.Benson

Native to

New Mexico

Wild records

17 in range· 0 open

Also known as Pediocactus bradyi var. knowltonii (L.D.Benson) Backeb.; Pediocactus simpsonii var. knowltonii (L.D.Benson) Halda; Toumeya knowltonii Anon.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Cactaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 17 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

NativeNew Mexico

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker36.85, -107.45 · in the densest population, 17 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 17 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 17 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 17 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Martin Purdy, some rights reserved (CC BY) (8).

Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Pediocactus knowltonii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Knowlton's cactus ( Pediocactus knowltonii ): Eighteen years of monitoring and recovery actions

Robert C. Sivinski, Charlie McDonald (2007)

Pediocactus knowltonii: A Close Look at a Very Rare Cactus

Root Gorelick (2022) · Cactus and Succulent Journal

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