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

Pelecyphora minima (Baird) D.Aquino & Dan.Sanchez

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 11 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Pelecyphora minima is a rare species of cactus known by the common names Nellie cory cactus, Nellie's pincushion cactus, birdfoot cactus, and others. It is a very popular species among cactus collectors. This is one reason why it is a highly endangered species in the wild today. This cactus is found only in Brewster County, Texas, in the United States, where there are three populations remaining near Marathon. More on Wikipedia ›

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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.

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Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(Baird) D.Aquino & Dan.Sanchez

Native to

Texas

Wild records

28 in range· 2 open

Also known as Coryphantha minima Baird; Coryphantha nellieae Croizat; Escobaria minima (Baird) D.R.Hunt; Escobaria nellieae (Croizat) Backeb.; Mammillaria nellieae (Croizat) Croizat and 1 more.

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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds 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

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

Map marker30.115, -103.37 · in the densest population, 28 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 28 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 11 km away. 1 record outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 27 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 28 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: Reid Hardin, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (8).

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

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