External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60473592-2
- Publication
- Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Fort Worth, Texas
- Collation
- 10(2): 354, figs. 1-4
- Date of Publication
- 14 Dec 2016
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cactaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- B. Wellard & K. Wellard BW 578
- Locality
- Limestone Road” S of Sun River Community, 1.25 mi N of Utah/Arizona border, 1 mi W of Port of Entry, alt. 795 m
- Collection Date
- 14 Apr 2016
- Type Herbaria
- holotype UT
isotype ASU - Latitude
- 37° N
- Longitude
- 113° W
- Distribution Of Types
- Utah (Southwestern U.S.A., Northern America)
Remarks
Etymology: The specific epithet, relictus, references how this species survived in a refugium in the northeast Mojave Desert. Relictus also references the ancestral diploid state of the species which makes it a plausible ancestor to E. engelmannii. (english)