Pediocactus simpsonii (Engelmann) Britton & Rose 1913 ssp.simpsonii

Britton & Brown, Illustr.Fl.ed.2, 2:570, 1913.

Rocky Mountainīs Cactus

Type: Lectotype collected in the Kobe Valley, Nevada, by Engelmann on the 24.4.1859, with a further example from the Butte Valley, Utah, collected by Engelmann on the 15.5.1859; both deposited in the Missouri Botanical Garden, St.Louis. The type plant of Pediocactus hermannii Marshall is deposited in the Douglas Herbarium of the Desert Botanical Garden in Tempe, Arizona.

Synonymy

Echinocactus simpsonii Engelmann, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 2:197, 1863.
Mammillaria simpsonii (Engelmann) Jones, Zoe 3:302, 1893.
Mammillaria purpusii (Engelmann) Schumann, Monatsschr.Kakteenk. 4:165, 1894.
Pediocactus hermannii Marshall, Saguaroland Bull. 8:78, 1954.
Pediocactus simpsonii (Engelmann) var.caespiticus Backeberg, Nat .Cact. & Succt. J. (GB), 14:63, 1959. nom. nud., Cactaceae, 5:2846 f. 2672 nom. inval.1961.
Pediocactus simpsonii (Engelmann) var. hermannii Wiegand & Backeberg, Die Cactaceae 5:2846, 1961.

Other representative material studied.

Arizona:fh 55.5, Pastore Peak, 2,100m,fh 55.7, Pastore Peak, 2,200 m.
Colorado:fh 20, Monarch Pass, 2,400m,
fh 20.0, Chaffee Co., 2,550m,
fh 21, Poncha Pass, 2,600m,
fh 22, Rio Grande Co.,
fh 22.0, Alder Creek area, 2,400m,
fh 23, Creede, 2,700m,
fh 23.0.3, Montrose Co.,
fh 23.0.4, Mesa Co., near Whitewater, 1,900m,
fh 23.0.5, Mesa Co.,
fh 23.0.6, Rifle, 1,700m,
fh 23.0.7, Mesa Co.,
fh 23.0.8, Mineral Co.,
fh 23.0.9, Huerfano Co.,
fh 23, 1, Palisade, 2,400m,
fh 23.1.0, Montrose Co.,
fh 23.1.1, Custer Co.,
fh 24, Gunnison Co., 2,350m,
fh 24.0, Gunnison Co., 2,400m,
fh 24.1, Gunnison Co.,
fh 25, Gunnison Co.,
fh 25.0, Gunnison Co., 2,250m,
fh 25.1, Saguache Co., 2,500m,
fh 26, Chaffee Co., 2,400m,
fh 26.1, Chaffee Co.,
fh 27, Mt. Princeton, 3,000m,
fh 27.0, Denver, 1,600m,
fh 27.0.1, Buena Vista, 2,250 m,
fh 27.0.2, South Fork, 2,600m,
fh 27.0.3, Pleseant View, 1,800m,
fh 27.0.4, Browns Creek, 2,520 m,
fh 27.0.6, Big Sandy Draw, 2,680m,
fh 27.0.7, Blue Mesa, 2,300m,
fh 27.0.8, Curecanti area, 2,280m,
fh 27.0.9, Blaine Rock, 2,350m,
fh 27.1.0, Highway 50, 2,700m,
fh 27.1.2, Pikes Peak, 2,600m,
fh 27.1.3, Fountain Creek, 2,800m,
fh 27.1.4, Pikes Peak, 2,750m,
fh 27.1.6, w Colorado Springs, 2,200m,
fh 27.1.7, Gunnison River, 2,280m,
fh 27.1, Natrop, 2,350m,
fh 27.2, Big Thompson Canyon, 2,000m,
fh 27.3, Ridgway, 2,000m,
fh 27.3.0, Ouray Co., 1,700m,
fh 27.3.1, Montezuma Co., 1,900m,
fh 27.3.2, Gateway, 2,250m,
fh 27.3.3, Rio Blanco Co.,
fh 27.3.4, Lake Co., 2,300m,
fh 27.3.5, Lake Co.,
fh 27.3.6, Lake Co., 3,000m,
fh 27.3.9, Jefferson Co.,1,900m,
fh 27.4.0, Chaffee Co., 2,650 m,
fh 27.4.5, Rio Blanco Co., 1,700m,
fh 27.4.6, Garfield Co.,
fh 27.4.9, Boulder Co.,
fh 27.5.1, Garfield Co.,
fh 27.5.2, Gunnison Co.,
fh 27.5.3, Rio Blanco Co.,
fh 27.5.6, Egnar, 2,240m,
fh 27.5.7, Plateau Creek, 1,800m.
Nevada:fh 30, Elko Co.,
fh 31, Contact, 1,650m,
fh 32, White Pine Co.,
fh 32.1, Eureka, 2,400m,
fh 32.2, Fish Creek, 1,990m,
fh 33, White Pine Co.,
fh 34, White Pine Co.,
fh 35, Nye Co.,
fh 36, Highway 50, 2,000m,
fh 37 Montello, 2,200m,
fh 38, Schell Creek Range, 2,300m,
fh 38.5, Conners Pass, 2,100 m,
fh 38.6, Hickinson, 2,000m,
fh 39, Elko Co.,
fh 39.1, Elko Co.,
fh 39.2, Elko Co.
New Mexico: fh 40, fh 40.0, Rio Arriba Co.,
fh 40.1, Rio Arriba Co., 2,000m,
fh 42.1, Taos Co., 2,300m.
Utah:fh 60, Sevier River, 2,000m,
fh 60.1, Panguitsch Creek, 2,400m,
fh 62, Monticello, 2,100m,
fh 63.7, n Hurricane Cliffs, 2,200m,
fh 64, Boulder Mts., 2,600m,
fh 64.1, Lion Mts., 2,100m,
fh 65.4, Wayne Co./Sevier Co., border, 2,300m,
fh 65.6, Pink Cliffs, 1,900m,
fh 65.7, Johnson Canyon, 1,950m,
fh 65.8, Fruitland, 2,050m,
fh 65.9 Strawberryi Reservation, 2,250 m,
fh 65.1.0, near Tabiona, 2,150m,
fh 66.0, Cedar Mts., 1,800m,
fh 66.0.1, Fishlake, 2.360m,
fh 66.0.2, Kosharem, 2,480m,
fh 66.0.3, Abajo Peak, 2,450m,
fh 66.1, Carbon Co.,
fh 66.2.1, Beaver Creek, 2,350m,
fh 66.2.5, Long Valley, 2,000m,
fh 66.3, Antimony, 2,000m,
fh 66.3.0, Goose Creek Mts., 1,650 m,
fh 66.3.1, Sawtooth, 1,900m.

SPECIES LIST
Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii, fh 64.1, Lion Mts., 2,100m.

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii, fh 60.1, Panguitsch Creek, 2,400m.

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii

Pediocactus simpsonii ssp.simpsonii, fh 27.3.3, Rio Blanco Co.