Scientific taxonomy article
Accepted name and nomenclatural record
Kew POWO accepts Acharagma roseanum with the author citation (Boed.) E.F.Anderson; IPNI confirms the first-publication record as “Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 71: 323 (1999)”.12 The native distribution is Nuevo León, Mexico. The native distribution is associated with dry shrubland in Nuevo León; nursery production, price or one product photograph is not evidence about wild populations or definitive identity.
Classification and production boundary
The live lineage is species → Acharagma → Cactaceae → Caryophyllales → Plantae. This package owns only the existing species node and its direct Acharagma genus relationship; it creates or updates no genus, family, order or kingdom node. A globose to short-columnar body, tubercle and areole pattern, central and radial spines, flowers, fruit, seeds and documented provenance should be evaluated together.
Identification cannot be reduced to one product photograph, body colour or flower colour. Tubercles, areoles, central and radial spines, flowers, fruit, seeds, native range and documented provenance should be evaluated together. Elongation, stress colour or grafted appearance in cultivation does not automatically change the scientific name.
Synonymy and canonical boundary
The current Kew surface maintains 7 nomenclatural synonym records. Kew maintains seven synonyms: six homotypic combinations and the heterotypic Acharagma huasteca. Historical generic combinations are not separate accepted-species routes. Homotypic names share a nomenclatural type; heterotypic names represent historical opinions based on other types. None creates a separate accepted product, botanical or taxonomy route.
Acharagma galeanense is a separately accepted species. Historical A. roseanum subsp. galeanense and Escobaria roseana subsp. galeanensis are excluded from this roseanum payload and synonym set. Synonyms support search and literature retrieval only; names of other accepted species are not moved into this canonical payload.
Range and global conservation
The native distribution is recorded as Nuevo León, Mexico.1 Commercial inventory, nursery origin, price and sales frequency are not measures of wild-population status.
The global conservation field is VU.3 The unsupported live LC value is corrected to the maintained global VU. Vulnerable concerns wild populations, not commercial availability.
Editorial ownership boundary
Product name and copy, price, stock, SKU, images, variants, categories, common names, slugs and the product-to-botanical link are not changed by this taxonomy-only source. Live toxicity, difficulty and light enums are carried forward exactly; watering, temperature and soil metrics are omitted from the curated source and preserved from live data. Legacy pricing research and Google-grounding metadata are not reused as scientific authority.
References
- Plants of the World Online. “Acharagma roseanum (Boed.) E.F.Anderson” Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-08-06. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A1012477-1 ↩
- International Plant Names Index. “Acharagma roseanum.” Accessed: 2026-08-06. https://www.ipni.org/n/1012477-1 ↩
- IUCN Red List. “Acharagma roseanum global conservation assessment.” Accessed: 2026-08-06. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/152561/120742505 ↩
- Plants of the World Online. “Acharagma galeanense accepted-species boundary.” Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-08-06. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A77179385-1 ↩
