Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name with Basionym (New Combination) Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 2nd, B, 210

Authors:

Buxbaum, Franz

Published In: Botanische Studien 12: 101. 1961. (Bot. Stud.)

Basionym:

Echinocactus pruinosus Otto ex Pfeiff. 

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.
• genus:  !!Stenocereus (A. Berger) Riccob.

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.

Other names with  Echinocactus pruinosus Otto ex Pfeiff.  as basionym:

!Cereus pruinosus (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Otto

**Griseocereus pruinosus (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Guiggi

Lemaireocereus pruinosus (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose

Rathbunia pruinosa (Otto ex Pfeiff.) P.V. Heath

Ritterocereus pruinosus (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Backeb.

Projects: Mesoamericana , VPA

Common Names:

• pitayo (Spanish)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. 2025. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): in press. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Keywords: NWG, VPA, FM