Group: Dicot Rank: genus Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 2nd, B, 210

Authors:

Link, Johann Heinrich Friedrich
Otto, Christoph Friedrich

Published In: Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlich Preussischen Staaten 3: 417. 1827. (Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten)
Annotation: nom. cons., non Boehmer 1760
Type Specimens

• CT: Cactus melocactus var. communis Aiton.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Caryophyllanae Takht.
• order:  !Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Cactaceae Juss.

Conservation Status:

• CITES Appendix II - Trade controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival - Global
  • Reference UNEP-WCMC. 2003. Checkl. CITES Sp. 1–339. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.
  • Conservation System UNEP-WCMC. 2003. Checkl. CITES Sp. 1–339. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.

Projects: Costa Rica , Ecuador , IPCN , Mesoamericana , Nicaragua , Peru , VPA

Keywords: BCA, CEC