Reid Hardin, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF · observed growing wild

Pelecyphora hesteri (Y.Wright) D.Aquino & Dan.Sanchez

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 8 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Pelecyphora hesteri is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to Texas, United States and Mexico.

Text from Wikipedia, “Pelecyphora hesteri”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Pelecyphora

Pelecyphora, pincushion cactus or foxtail cactus is a genus of cacti, comprising 20 species. They originate from Mexico and the United States.

Text from Wikipedia, “Pelecyphora”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(Y.Wright) D.Aquino & Dan.Sanchez

Native to

Texas, Mexico Northeast

Wild records

23 in range· 6 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Pelecyphora, which is reliably 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: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

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

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeTexas, Mexico Northeast

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

Map marker30.183, -103.238 · in the densest population, 23 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 23 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 6 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 10 km away. 1 record outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 20 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 openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 23 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: Reid Hardin, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4); waldo_jeffers, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist 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 Pelecyphora hesteri, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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