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Wiggins's cholla

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1

The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Cylindropuntia.12

Its recorded native range/source remark is UTA, SOUTHWESTERNUSA, MEXICO, MXN, MXNSI, NORTHERNAMERICA, CAL, MXNSO, NEV, MXNBS, ARI, CALOO; SE. California to SE. Utah and Mexico (Baja California, Sonora).1

POWO records the plant context as succulent subshrub or shrub, desert or dry shrubland.1

This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.

References

  1. Plants of the World Online. "Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:73861-2 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Cylindropuntia echinocarpa". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/3952975 ↩
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Native Habitat

SE. California to SE. Utah and Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)

Automatically collected source range/note: UTA, SOUTHWESTERN_USA, MEXICO, MXN, MXN_SI, NORTHERN_AMERICA, CAL, MXN_SO, NEV, MXN_BS, ARI, CAL_OO; SE. California to SE. Utah and Mexico (Baja California, Sonora).