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  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›pinks, cactuses, and allies
  6. ›cacti
  7. ›globular cacti, moonlight cacti, torch cacti, and allies
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  9. ›Acharagma
Acharagma aguirreanum
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Acharagma aguirreanum

Acharagma aguirreanum is a critically endangered microendemic cactus. It has a range of about one square kilometer in the calcareous semi-desert of the Sierra de la Paila in Coahuila, Mexico. Its population is estimated at less than 1000 individuals. Its only major threat is illegal collecting.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 188931.