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Accession Data:

Obregonia denegrii Fric

  • Common Name: Peyotillo, Obregonita
  • Family: Cactaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Mexico, Tamaulipas, San Vicente near Ciudad Victoria
  • Habitat: rare species resembling a dark green pine cone..

  • Description: [syn. Ariocarpus denegrii, Strombocactus denegri]

    Solitary, to 12cm across.

    This cactus is known as a peyote due to B.P. Reko's chemical studies which found that it contained alkaloids similar to those in the well known Ariocarpus peyote species. From this data alone comes the assumption of O. denegrii being a peyote species. Extracts of this cactus have been shown to have antibiotic activity.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199800173
  • Source: Chiltern Seed
  • Accession Date: 11-10-1998
  • Bench: 2211 - XER:Chihuahuan-Tehuacan Deserts
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-16-2019
  • Restrictions:
    • IUCN Red List: Endangered Species
    • CITES Appendix I Listed Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Cactaceae
  • SubFamily: Cactoideae
  • Tribe: Cacteae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • IUCN Redlist Endangered Species
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology

References (external):

Cacti, The Illustrated Dictionary, Preston-Mafham, 1991 The Last Peyotero

data regenerated on Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:36:56 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Cactaceae

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Cacteae

  • Ariocarpus fissuratus
  • Astrophytum myriostigma
  • Coryphantha cornifera W/C
  • Coryphantha maiz-tablasensis W/C
  • Echinocactus grusonii
  • Echinocactus texensis W/C
  • Epithelantha micromeris W/C
  • Ferocactus echidne W/C
  • Ferocactus glaucescens W/C
  • Ferocactus glaucescens
  • Ferocactus pilosus
  • Leuchtenbergia principis
  • Mammillaria bocasana
  • Mammillaria bombycina
  • Mammillaria compressa
  • Mammillaria compressa
  • Mammillaria formosa W/C
  • Mammillaria glochidiata W/C
  • Mammillaria gracilis ssp. minima
  • Mammillaria gracilis ssp. minima
  • Mammillaria hertrichiana W/C
  • Mammillaria hertrichiana W/C
  • Mammillaria magnimamma
  • Mammillaria parkinsonii W/C
  • Mammillaria petterssonii W/C
  • Mammillaria plumosa
  • Mammillaria scheideana W/C
  • Mammillaria uncinata W/C
  • Mammilloydia candida W/C
  • Obregonia denegrii
  • Ortegocactus macdougallii
  • Stenocactus coptonogonus
  • Stenocactus crispatus W/C
  • Stenocactus phyllacanthus
  • Thelocactus rinconensis W/C

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Cereeae

  • Cereinae: Cereus forbesii
  • Cereinae: Cereus hildmannianus W/C
  • Cereinae: Cereus repandus
  • Cereinae: Cereus repandus var. monstrosus
  • Cereinae: Cipocereus bradei
  • Cereinae: Disocactus flagelliformis
  • Cereinae: Melocactus azureus
  • Cereinae: Melocactus cf. disciformis
  • Cereinae: Melocactus intortus W/C
  • Cereinae: Melocactus lemairei W/C
  • Cereinae: Pilosocereus magnificus
  • Cereinae: Pilosocereus pachycladus W/C
  • Cereinae: Pilosocereus polygonus W/C
  • Cereinae: Pilosocereus purpusii
  • Cereinae: Pilosocereus sp.
  • Rebutiinae: Browningia hertlingianus
  • Rebutiinae: Gymnocalycium capillaense W/C
  • Rebutiinae: Gymnocalycium gibbosum W/C
  • Rebutiinae: Gymnocalycium pflanzii W/C
  • Rebutiinae: Rebutia elegans (aureiflora?)
  • Rebutiinae: Rebutia spegazziniana var. atrovividus
  • Rebutiinae: Uebelmannia pectinifera
  • Trichocereinae: Acanthocalycium klimpelianum W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Acanthocalycium klimpelianum W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Cleistocactus baumannii ssp. santacruzensis
  • Trichocereinae: Cleistocactus fieldianus W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Cleistocactus strausii
  • Trichocereinae: Discocactus placentiformis
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis ancistrophora
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis ancistrophora ssp. arachnacantha
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis atacamensis W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis aurea W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis aurea W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis aurea
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis calochlora
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis camarguensis
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis eyriesii
  • Trichocereinae: Echinopsis thionanthum W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Espostoa ritteri W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Espostoa senilis
  • Trichocereinae: Haageocereus chryseus W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Haageocereus salmonoides
  • Trichocereinae: Harrisia regelii W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Harrisia taetra W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Lobivia pygmaea
  • Trichocereinae: Matucana calliantha
  • Trichocereinae: Matucana madisoniorum
  • Trichocereinae: Oreocereus celsianus W/C
  • Trichocereinae: Oreocereus cf. celsianus
  • Trichocereinae: Weberbauerocereus rauhii W/C

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Copiapoinae

  • Copiapoa cinerea W/C
  • Copiapoa cinerea var. haseltoniana
  • Copiapoa coquimbana W/C
  • Copiapoa echinoides W/C
  • Copiapoa echinoides
  • Copiapoa humilis
  • Copiapoa hypogaea
  • Copiapoa hypogaea W/C
  • Copiapoa montana
  • Copiapoa montana W/C
  • Copiapoa unidentified
  • Frailea cf. pygmaea

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Hylocereeae

  • Heliocereus speciosus

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Notocacteae

  • Neoporteriinae: Austrocactus spiniflorus
  • Neoporteriinae: Eriosyce napina W/C
  • Neoporteriinae: Eriosyce subgibbosa W/C
  • Neoporteriinae: Eriosyce villicumensis
  • Neoporteriinae: Eriosyce villosa W/C
  • Neoporteriinae: Eulychnia breviflora
  • Neoporteriinae: Eulychnia saint-pieana
  • Notocactinae: Parodia comarapana
  • Notocactinae: Parodia formose var. prolifera
  • Notocactinae: Parodia haselbergii ssp. haselbergii
  • Notocactinae: Parodia leninghausii
  • Notocactinae: Parodia magnifica
  • Notocactinae: Parodia ottonis

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Phyllocacteae

  • Corryocactinae: Neoraimondia arequipensis W/C
  • Echinocereinae: Carnegiea gigantea
  • Echinocereinae: Cephalocereus euphorbioides
  • Echinocereinae: Cephalocereus quadricentralis W/C
  • Echinocereinae: Cephalocereus senilis
  • Echinocereinae: Echinocereus cinerascens W/C
  • Echinocereinae: Echinocereus nivosus
  • Echinocereinae: Echinocereus pentalophus
  • Echinocereinae: Echinocereus scheeri ssp. scheeri W/C
  • Echinocereinae: Echinocereus subinermis
  • Echinocereinae: Echinocereus subinermis ssp. ochoterenae
  • Echinocereinae: Escontria chiotilla
  • Echinocereinae: Lophocereus sp.
  • Echinocereinae: Lophocereus schottii
  • Echinocereinae: Lophocereus schottii
  • Echinocereinae: Stenocereus humilis
  • Echinocereinae: Stenocereus stellatus
  • Hylocereinae: Epiphyllum hookeri subsp. guatemalense
  • Hylocereinae: Epiphyllum oxypetalum
  • Hylocereinae: Epiphyllum phyllanthus W/C
  • Hylocereinae: Hylocereus costaricensis
  • Hylocereinae: Pseudorhipsalis micrantha
  • Hylocereinae: Selenicereus anthonyanus
  • Hylocereinae: Selenicereus chrysocardium
  • Hylocereinae: Selenicereus grandiflorus
  • Hylocereinae: Selenicereus wittii W/C

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Rhipsalideae

  • Hatiora gaertneri
  • Hatiora herminiae W/C
  • Hatiora rosea
  • Hatiora salicornioides
  • Hatiora sp.
  • Lepismium cf houlletianum
  • Lepismium cruciforme
  • Lepismium warmingianum
  • Rhipsalis baccifera ssp. horrida
  • Rhipsalis burchellii
  • Rhipsalis cereuscula
  • Rhipsalis cf rhombea
  • Rhipsalis elliptica
  • Rhipsalis lorentziana W/C
  • Rhipsalis mesembryanthemoides
  • Rhipsalis oblonga
  • Rhipsalis pachyptera
  • Rhipsalis paradoxa
  • Rhipsalis pentaptera
  • Rhipsalis pilocarpa
  • Rhipsalis teres
  • Schlumbergera truncata

Subfamily Cactoideae
Tribe Trichocereeae

  • Weingartia frey-juckeri
  • Yungasocereus inquisivensis

Subfamily Maihuenioideae

  • Maihuenia patagonica W/C

Subfamily Opuntioideae
Tribe Austrocylindropuntieae

  • Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica
  • Austrocylindropuntia vestita
  • Cumulopuntia sphaerica

Subfamily Opuntioideae
Tribe Cylindropuntieae

  • Cylindropuntia whipplei
  • Grusonia bradtiana W/C
  • Pereskiopsis porteri

Subfamily Opuntioideae
Tribe Opuntieae

  • Opuntia articulata
  • Opuntia fragilis
  • Opuntia humifusa W/C
  • Opuntia microdasys "Monstrose"
  • Opuntia microdasys
  • Opuntia microdasys var. lutea
  • Opuntia microdasys ssp. rufida
  • Opuntia picardoi
  • Opuntia quitensis
  • Opuntia schickendantzii

Subfamily Opuntioideae
Tribe Tephrocacteae

  • Maihueniopsis atacamensis W/C

Subfamily Pereskioideae
Tribe Pereskieae

  • Pereskia aculeata
  • Pereskia grandifolia
  • Pereskia quisqueyana W/C
  • Pereskia sacharosa
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