Opuntia echinocarpa, not coll.--California. Riverside Co. P to P. 2 April 2010 073 (3).jpg
Native to Arizona, California, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, Utah (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Riverside (Palm Desert)
33.664333, -116.399056
Location Remarks
Palms to Pines Highway (Highway 74), ca. 3 miles S of junction with Highway 111.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Cylindropuntia
Specific Epithet
echinocarpa
Authorship
(Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#266,977 of 335,497
Top 80%
Extinction probability
5%
