Sclerocactus sileri, Coconino County, US-AZ, US

Sclerocactus sileri (L.D.Benson) K.D.Heil & J.M.Porter

House Rock cactus, House Rock fish-hook cactus, House Rock little barrel cactus, House Rock sclerocactus

No habitat climate 14 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Sclerocactus sileri, the Siler fishhook cactus, is a rare and very small cactus found mostly in mineral-rich desert areas of intermediate elevations, notably in the American states of Utah, Nevada, and northern Arizona.

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About the genus · Sclerocactus

Sclerocactus is a genus of cacti. It comprises about 15 species, the exact number depending on the authority. These species are xerophytic. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Sclerocactus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(L.D.Benson) K.D.Heil & J.M.Porter

Native to

Arizona

Wild records

14 in range· 3 open

Also known as Pediocactus pubispinus subsp. sileri (L.D.Benson) Halda; Sclerocactus pubispinus var. sileri L.D.Benson.

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: 14 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.

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

NativeArizona

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

Map marker36.692, -112.113 · in the densest population, 14 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 14 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 14 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 14 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Andrew Dudley, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6); Andrew Dudley, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

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

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