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Turbinicarpus laui Glass & R.A.Foster

Cactaceae

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Turbinicarpus laui is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Text from Wikipedia, “Turbinicarpus laui”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Turbinicarpus

Turbinicarpus is a genus of very small to medium-sized cacti, which inhabit the north-eastern regions of Mexico, in particular the states of San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.

Text from Wikipedia, “Turbinicarpus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Glass & R.A.Foster
Native to
Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest
Wild records
39 in range· 27 open

Also known as Neolloydia laui (Glass & R.A.Foster) E.F.Anderson; Pediocactus laui (Glass & R.A.Foster) Halda; Strombocactus laui (Glass & R.A.Foster) Mays.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Turbinicarpus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker22.251, -100.33 · in the densest population, 39 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 39 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 27 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 38 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 39 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Turbinicarpus laui, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Micropropagation of Turbinicarpus laui Glass et Foster, an endemic and endangered species
Martín Mata‐Rosas, Mario Alberto Monroy De la Rosa, Katja Moebius Goldammer, Víctor Manuel Chávez Ávila (2001) · In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant
Enhanced production and identification of antioxidants in in vitro cultures of the cacti Mammillaria candida and Turbinicarpus laui
Antonio Reyes-Martínez, Marilena Antunes‐Ricardo, Janet A. Gutiérrez‐Uribe, María del Socorro Santos-Díaz (2019) · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Clonal propagation of Turbinicarpus laui Glass & Foster, a cactus threatened with extinction
María del Socorro Santos-Díaz, Ricardo Méndez-Ontiveros, Alberto Arredondo-Gómez, María de Lourdes Santos-Díaz (2003) · Bradleya
In vitro regeneration of the endangered cactus Turbincarpus mombergeri (Riha), a hybrid of T. laui × T. pseudopectinatus
María del Socorro Santos-Díaz, Ma. de Lourdes Santos-Díaz, Juana Alvarado-Rodríguez (2021) · Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
In Vitro Regeneration of The Endangered Cactus Turbincarpus Mombergeri Riha, A Hybrid of T. Laui x T. Pseudopectinatus
María del Socorro Santos-Díaz, Ma. Lourdes Santos-Díaz, Juana Alvarado-Rodríguez (2021) · Research Square
Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of hydroalcoholic extracts from Mammillaria candida and Turbinicarpus laui (Cactaceae) in vitro cultures
Adriana Belén Castillejos-Pérez, Erika Garcı́a-Chávez, María del Socorro Santos-Díaz (2023) · Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
Vasorelaxant activity of metabolites present in Mammillaria candida and Turbinicarpus laui in vitro cultures
Antonio Reyes-Martínez, Juan Roberto Valle-Aguilera, Carmen González, María del Socorro Santos-Díaz (2021) · Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
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Other Turbinicarpus 13 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.