CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina
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Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina is Not Sponsored |
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custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
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Kathleen C. Rice contributed to this Plant Profile. |
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| Coryphantha scheeri v. robustispina is a small globular cactus that reaches 10-18 cm in height with distinctive, straw-colored central spines (ca 2 cm long on mature plants). Plants have prominent tubercules, the tip of each having an aeroele. Young aereoles are densely covered with wool, old ones are completely smooth. Older tubercules toward the bottom of plants can differentiate to form new plants. Pale yellow flowers bloom in early July and give way to juicy, green fruits containing large brown seeds (about 2mm). Coryphantha scheeri v. robustispina was first collected in 1856 by Schott in the Baboquivari Mountains in Sonora, Mexico. In 1856, it was published by Engelman as Mamillaria robustispina, based on the large seed size. Britton and Rose renamed it as Coryphantha robustispina in 1923, and in 1953, it was designated as a variety of Coryphantha mulenpfordtii, by Marshall. Finally, Benson (1969) split C. scheeri into 3 varieties, one of them being var. robustispina. Plants are designated Threatened under the Endangered Species Act (1990), and are designated as Forest Service Sensitive, and Highly Safeguarded by Arizona state law.
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References |
Benson, L. 1969. Cacti of Arizona. Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 218p. |
Benson, L. 1982. The Cacti of the United States and Canada. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1044p. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1993. Species distribution data for vascular plants of 70 geographical areas, from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1996. Species distribution data at state and province level for vascular plant taxa of the United States, Canada, and Greenland (accepted records), from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the U.S., Canada, and Greenland. In: Kartesz, J.T.; Meacham, C.A., editors. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Chapel Hill, NC. |
(2000). Center for Plant Conservation's National Living Collection--Profiles. Desert Botanical Garden. http://www.dbg.org/Collections/cpc.html. Accessed: 2002. |
(2002). Threatened and Endangered Species in Pima County; Priority Vulnerable Species in Pima County. The On-line Sonoran Desert Educational Center. http://www.co.pima.az.us/cmo/sdcp/sdcp2/fsheets/index.html. Accessed: 2002. |
Arizona Game and Fish Department. (1999). Plant Abstracts. Compiled and edited by the Heritage Data Management System, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, AZ. http://www.gf.state.az.us/frames/fishwild/hdms_site/Abstracts/Plants/abstracts%20-%20plants.htm. Accessed: 2002. |
Halverson, B.; Roller, T. 1994. Endangered Cactus offers NBS Opportunity to Examine Species. Bajada. 2, 2: 1. |
USFWS. 1992. Proposal to List the Plant Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina (Pima Pineapple Cactus) as Endangered. Federal Register. 57, 76: 14374-14378. |
USFWS. 1993. Determination of endangered status for the plant pima pineapple cactus (Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina). Federal Register. 58, 183: 49875 - 49879. |
USFWS. 2000. Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP) for Pima County, Arizona. Federal Register. 65, 174: 54295-54297. |
2001. Draft Report: Priority Vulnerable Species in Pima County, Arizona, as part of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. Pima County, Arizona: Board of Supervisors. |
2002. General Species Information. Phoenix, Arizona: Arizona Ecological Services Field Office. |
Brown, D.E.; Lowe, C.H. 1980. Map, Biotic Communities of the Southwest (scale 1:1,000,000). Rocky Mt. Forest and Range Expt. Station General Tech Report RM-78. USDA Forest Service. |
Fonseca, J.; Scalero, D. 1999. Determining Valuable Species within Pima County, AZ: a discussion paper for the Sonoran desert conservation plan. Tuscon, AZ: Pima County Flood Control District. |
Mills, G.S. 1991. Miscellaneous notes on Coryphantha scheeri v. robustispina. Phoenix, Arizona: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
Schmalzel, R.J.; Dix. 1998. Establishment of a permanent plot for the study of Pima Pineapple Cactus (Coryphantha scheeri v. robustispina) on the San Pedro-Milagro Pasture (King Anvil Ranch, southern Arizona) and a Single-Year Demographic Study of Each Population. Arizona Department of Agriculture contract NPL96-97. p.11. |
Tolley, S. 1992. A Summary of the Pima Pineapple Cactus on the Buenos Aires Refuge. Sasabe, Arizona: Buenos Aires Refuge. |
USFWS. 1981. Status report for Coryphantha scheeri v. robustispina. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
Roller, Patricia Suzanne. 1996. Distribution, Growth, and Reproduction of Pima Pineapple Cactus (Coryphantha scheeri Kuntz var. robustispina Schott). [M.S. Thesis]: The University of Arizona. 83p. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |