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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)

Ex Authors:

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert

Published In: Boston Journal of Natural History 6(2): 207–208. 1850. (Jan. 1850) (Boston J. Nat. Hist.)
Annotation: as "Engelmanni"

Type-Protologue

Locality: "From El Paso to Chihuahua, indigenous and cultivated ... Texan side of the Rio del Norte"

Collector and Number: F. A. Wislizenus s.n.

Distribution: Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango & Sonora), USA (Texas to Arizona)

Type Specimens

• LT: A. Wislizenus - 223 - MO - (BC:MO-177094/A:2015202). (MO - (BC:MO-177094/A:2015202))

  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. & D. L. Walkington. 1965. The Southern Californian Prickly Pears-Invasion, Adulteration, and Trial-by-Fire. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52(3): 273.
• ST: A. Wislizenus - 223 - MO - (BC:MO-177094/A:2015202). (MO - (BC:MO-177094/A:2015202))
• LT: A. Wislizenus s.n.; Aug 1846; Mexico: North of Chihuahua, common as high up as El Paso LT designated by Benson & Walkington, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 273 (1965).

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:  Opuntia Mill.

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: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA