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Echinocereus subinermis

Echinocereus subinermis

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Accepted name, two separately accepted subspecies, zero species-level Kew synonyms, Mexican range and correction to global Data Deficient.

Scientific taxonomy article

Accepted name and nomenclatural record

Kew POWO accepts Echinocereus subinermis with the author citation Salm-Dyck ex Scheer; IPNI confirms the first-publication record as “B.Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald: 291 (1856)”.12 The native distribution is Sonora, Sinaloa, southwestern Chihuahua and Durango in Mexico. The native distribution is restricted to dry areas of northwestern and north-central Mexico; nursery production in Adana, nine retail plants or one product label is not evidence about wild populations.

Classification and diagnostic boundary

The live lineage is species → Echinocereus → Cactaceae. This package owns only the existing species node and its direct Echinocereus genus relationship; it creates no genus, family, order or accepted infraspecific node and updates no ancestor. Species identity should be assessed from the young globose to later short-columnar body, ribs, areoles and variable armature, large yellow-orange flowers, fruit, seed and documented provenance together.

Identification cannot be reduced to one product photograph, a trade common name, body colour or flower colour alone. Ribs, areoles, central and radial spines, root structure, flowers, fruit, seed, native range and documented provenance should be assessed together. Elongation, drought colour or nursery form does not automatically change the scientific name.

Synonymy and canonical boundary

The current Kew species surface maintains 0 nomenclatural synonym records. The species surface has no direct Kew synonym. Kew maintains two accepted subspecies; they are not flattened into species synonymy and are not created by this package. E. subinermis subsp. subinermis and subsp. ochoterenae are accepted infraspecific taxa. Historical var. aculeatus is maintained by Kew under E. davisii; none enters this species synonym set.

Homotypic names share a nomenclatural type; heterotypic names represent historical taxonomic opinions based on other types. Synonyms support search and literature retrieval and do not create a separate accepted product, botanical or taxonomy route. Names of other accepted species or accepted subspecies are not moved into the canonical species payload.

Range, ecology and global conservation

The native distribution is recorded as Sonora, Sinaloa, southwestern Chihuahua and Durango in Mexico.1 The species is considered in the context of the desert or dry shrubland biome. Commercial inventory, nursery origin, price and sales frequency are not measures of wild-population status.

The global conservation field is DD.3 The unsupported live LC value is corrected to the official global DD. Data Deficient does not mean absence of risk; it means evidence is insufficient for a reliable global assessment.

Editorial and data ownership

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 production. Legacy pricing research, hypothetical exchange-rate calculations and Google-grounded metadata are not reused as scientific authority.

This separation prevents the commercial product narrative, cultivation-focused dictionary article and nomenclatural-systematic taxonomy article from collapsing into one text. Any future accepted infraspecific publication requires its own identity, evidence, builder, disposable and production-release gates.

References

  1. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “Echinocereus subinermis Salm-Dyck ex Scheer.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:132466-1 ↩
  2. International Plant Names Index. “Echinocereus subinermis nomenclatural record.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://www.ipni.org/n/132466-1 ↩
  3. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. “Echinocereus subinermis global conservation assessment.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/152794/121488734 ↩
  4. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “Echinocereus subinermis subsp. subinermis accepted boundary.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77228933-1 ↩
  5. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “Echinocereus subinermis subsp. ochoterenae accepted boundary.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1001179-1 ↩
  6. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “Echinocereus subinermis var. aculeatus exclusion.” Accessed: 2026-08-07. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:88026-2 ↩

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Echinocereus subinermis

Echinocereus subinermis

Echinocereus subinermis

Echinocereus subinermis is an Echinocereus in Cactaceae. Species identity should be assessed from the young globose to later short columnar body, ribs, areoles and variable armature, large yellow orange flowers, fruit, seed and documented provenance together. A sales label or single photograph cannot settle identity; body, ribs, areoles, spines, roots, flowers, fruit, seed and documented provenance should be examined together.