Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii

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Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii L.D.Benson
Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 128. 1969
Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii (L.D.Benson) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.
Echinocereus Monogr. (preprint) [10] (1998) W.Blum, Mich.Lange et al.

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
SB743 Marathon, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Nice plant with Shiny yellowish spines and brown yellowish flowers.

Origin and Habitat: S. Marathon, Brewster CO, Davis Mts, Texas.

Synonyms:

Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii (L.D.Benson) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.

Echinocereus chloranthus subs. cylindricus f. corellii (L.D.Benson)
Echinocereus correllii Kuenzler
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii L.D.Benson

See all synonyms of Echinocereus viridiflorus

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viridiflorus Engelm. in Wisliz.
Mem. Tour N. Mexico [Wislizenus] 91. 1848
Synonymy: 19

Echinocereus viridiflorus Engelm. in Wisliz.

Cereus viridiflorus (Engelm.) Engelm.

Echinocereus labouretii Förster ex Rümpler
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. centrispinus Vernon Bailey
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. elongatus* hort. ex Backeb.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. faciliflorus Hildm. ex Schelle
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. intermedius Backeb.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. longispinus Schelle
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. major
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. minor Engelm. ex D.Weniger

Cereus viridiflorus var. minor Engelm.

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. montanus hort.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. robustior Kuenzler
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. ruberrimus Frič
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. rubrus Frič
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. sanguineus Regel ex Schelle
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. standleyi (Britton & Rose) Orcutt ex D.Weniger

Echinocereus standleyi Britton & Rose
Echinocereus viridiflorus f. standleyi (Britton & Rose) D.Parker

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. chloranthus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor
Cactaceae Consensus Init. 3: 10. 1997
Synonymy: 10

Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. chloranthus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor

Cereus chloranthus Engelm.
Echinocereus chloranthus (Engelm.) Engelm. ex Rümpler in Förster
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. chloranthus (Engelm.) Backeb.
Echinocereus viridiflorus f. chloranthus Krainz

Echinocereus milleri W.Blum, Kuenzler & Oldach
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. canus A.M.Powell & Weedin
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. neocapillus (D.Weniger) A.D.Zimmerman

Echinocereus chloranthus var. neocapillus D.Weniger
Echinocereus neocapillus (D.Weniger) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii (L.D.Benson) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.
Echinocereus Monogr. (preprint) [10] (1998)
Synonymy: 5

Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii (L.D.Benson) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.

Echinocereus chloranthus subs. cylindricus f. corellii (L.D.Benson)
Echinocereus correllii Kuenzler
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii L.D.Benson

Echinocereus carmenensis W.Blum, Mich.Lange & E.Scherer in W.Blum et al.

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. cylindricus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor
Cactaceae Consensus Init. 3: 10. 1997
Synonymy: 8

Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. cylindricus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor

Cereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus Engelm.
Cereus viridiflorus var. tubulosus J.M.Coult.
Echinocereus chloranthus subs. cylindricus (Engelm.) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.
Echinocereus chloranthus var. cylindricus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor
Echinocereus strausianus Haage jr. in Quehl
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus (Engelm.) Rümpler
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. tubulosus (J.M.Coult.) A.Heller

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. davisii (Houghton) N.P.Taylor
Cactaceae Consensus Init. 3: 10. 1997
Synonymy: 4

Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. davisii (Houghton) N.P.Taylor

Echinocereus davisii Houghton
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. davisii (Houghton) W.T.Marshall
Echinocereus viridiflorus f. davisii (Houghton) Krainz

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. rhyolithensis W. Blume & Mich.Lange
Synonymy: 4

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. rhyolithensis W. Blume & Mich.Lange

Echinocereus chloranthus subs. rhyolithensis W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.

Echinocereus viridiflorus cowperii n.n.

Echinocereus cowperii n.n.

Cultivars (1):

Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. davisii cv. brevispinus hort.

Echinocereus davisii f. brevispinus hort.

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Description: Usually grows singly or forms two or more stems , but never forms large clusters or mounds.
Stems: as much as 7,5 cm in diameter and 15 (25) cm tall.
Spines: This species has short shiny yellowish spines but show a considerable variability in spine shape, some plants has only radials while other have a variable number of short centrals.
Flowers: Smaller than others in this genus about 2,5 cm long and 2,5 cm inch broad. Brown yellowish, and grow well down on the busides, often forming a band around the middle. Blooms in March or April.
Fruit: The fruit is small about the size of a small grape, green at first and later turning a purplish red and spiny.
Remarks: Echinocereus chloranthusSN|11071]]SN|7768]] is part of the Echinocereus viridiflorusSN|7768]]SN|11071]] compless that comprises a large number of infraspecific taxa, differing in various combinations of flower color, spine color, number and thickness of central spines, and other characters, including floral scent. Wherever such taxa are sympatric they intergrade; all are freely interfertile in the greenhouse.

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Echinocereus viridiflorus/russanthus complex

Echinocereus carmenensis W.Blum, Mich.Lange & E.Scherer in W.Blum et al.: has stocky body covered by tight yellowish pectinate spines and peculiar chocolate-scented flowers. Distribution: La Cuesta, passo Sierra del Carmem, Coahuila, Mexico.
Echinocereus milleri W.Blum, Kuenzler & Oldach: has the "hairy" seedlings of Echinocereus viridiflorus var. neocapillus, but has fewer spines it is also similar to the yellow spined Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. Correllii (which it obviously is not).
Echinocereus russanthus D.Weniger: has spheric to cylindrical stems, 8-30 tall and 4-8 cm Ø; ribs 10-20. Spines: Interlocking, bristly, typically reddish to brown, radiating in all directions. Distribution: Chihuahua (Mexico) and N-W Texas (USA).
Echinocereus russanthus f. cristata hort.: crested form.
Echinocereus russanthus subs. fiehnii (Trocha) W.Blum & Mich.Lange: Distribution: endemic to the Sierra del Nido, central Chihuahua, Mexico.
Echinocereus russanthus subs. weedinii Leuck ex W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.
Echinocereus viridiflorus Engelm. in Wisliz.: ssp. viridiflorus (Typical form) With small stems and relatively pure yellow flowers, extends from central New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle to South Dakota.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. canus A.M.Powell & Weedin: has hairy juvenile forms. Distribution: Solitario, Sandstone ridge above Righthand Shutup, Presidio Co., Texas, USA.
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. chloranthus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor: has 10-18 ribs, 5 or more central spines, giving the plants a bristly appearance, it is often considered a separate species (Echinocereus chloranthus). Distribution: W. Texas, S.E. New Mexico, and N. Mexico.
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii (L.D.Benson) W.Blum & Mich.Lange in W.Blum et al.: It is a poorly defined, yellow-spined population near Marathon, Texas.
Echinocereus viridiflorus cowperii n.n.: same as: Echinocereus viridiflorus var. rhyolithensis.
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. cylindricus (Engelm.) N.P.Taylor: The common morphotype grows at middle altitudes in Texas and southeastern New Mexico, it has 0-2(-3) central spines.
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. davisii (Houghton) N.P.Taylor: In the broad sense Echinocereus viridiflorus may prove paraphyletic with respect to Echinocereus davisii, but they are phenologically isolated, with Echinocereus davisii flowering earlier and thus appearing reproductively isolated in the wild.
Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. davisii cv. brevispinus hort.: has very short spines, usually radial, pectinated, stout, fang like, white whit a dark contrasting tip 2-4 mm long. Spine clusters looks like small starfishes.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. montanus hort.: has significantly depressed stems solitary or in low clusters (mostly less than 2 cm tall). Distribution: Southwestern USA (Monarch Pass, Colorado?)
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. neocapillus (D.Weniger) A.D.Zimmerman: Remarkable for its softly hairy, not sharply spiny, seedlings.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. rhyolithensis W. Blume & Mich.Lange: (Echinocereus russantus forma) Bristly red-spined plants from New Mexico.
Echinocereus viridiflorus var. robustior Kuenzler: It is a more robust form but not sufficiently differentiated and considered merely a local variant of Echinocereus viridiflorus var viridiflorus. Distribution New Mexico.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) David Hunt, Nigel Taylor “The New Cactus Lexicon” DH Books, 2006
2) John Pilbeam (1999) “Mammillaria The Cactus File Handbook” Nuffield Press.
3) Edward F. Anderson “The Cactus Family” Timber Press, 2001
4) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey “The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass”Cambridge University Press, 11/ago/2011

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Peiffer Clement

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Cactus Art

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Cactus Art

A plant with central spine. (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Cactus Art

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Cactus Art

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Peiffer Clement

A plant without central spines. (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Cactus Art

Echinocereus viridiflorus var. correllii (Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. correllii) Photo by: Peiffer Clement

Cultivation and Propagation: Rot easily it is sensitive to overwatering (rot prone) needs a very good drainage to avoid rotting, Keep drier and cool in winter. Need full sun. Cold resistant above approx - 12C or less for short periods of time.
Propagation: It can be grown from seeds.

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