USA, Arizona, Gila, Grown in cultivation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, N 33 deg 27' 33'', W 111 deg 56' 35'', 1200 ft., 366 m; accession number 2011-0153-01-1; originally received as a plant collected by Joni Ward 550 5 September 2011 from Arizona, Gila County, Tonto National Forest (Permit RO-173) Payson, Houston Mesa Road to the Control Road , left or northwest to Washington Park Road, then north ca .6 miles; collector's notes: Pine-Juniper-Oak forest on north side of road in cleared forest; Associated taxa: Opuntia phaeacantha, Pinus ponderosa, Juniperus deppeana, Escobaria vivipara, Yucca elata, Garrya wrightii, Gutierrezia microcephala, Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera, Brickellia, Boutaloua; DES000
34.386333 -111.285833
34° 23.18' N 111° 17.15' W
1655 meters
5430ft
Plant height ca 2 inches, multi-stemmed mound, stems forest green; spines tan or white with darker tips or reddish-brown, no central spines, few to no grooves; flowers collected in the late afternoon, diameter 57-60 mm, length 40-48 mm, outer perianth tan or pink with a greenish-brown or pinkish-brown midstripe, inner perianth hot pink with a darker midstripe; stigma lobe number 6, pale pink darker on abaxial side; style white; filaments white.