Acharagma aguirreanum

Acharagma aguirreanum
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Genus:	Acharagma
Species:	A. aguirreanum
Binomial name
*Acharagma aguirreanum* (Glass & R.A.Foster) Glass
Synonyms^[1]
Escobaria aguirreana (Glass & R.C.Foster) N.P.Taylor Gymnocactus aguirreanus Glass & R.A.Foster

Acharagma aguirreanum is a critically endangered microendemic cactus. It has a range of about one square kilometer in the calcerous 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.

References

1 2 "IUCN Redlist entry for Acharagma aguirreanum". Retrieved 2017-04-21.

Anderson, E.F., Fitz Maurice, W.A. & Fitz Maurice, B. 2002. Escobaria aguirreana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 August 2007.
"IUCN Redlist entry for Acharagma aguirreanum". Retrieved 2017-04-21.

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