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

Authors:

Schumann, Karl Moritz

Published In: Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen 334. 1898. (Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.)
Type Specimens

• T: Echinocactus megarrhizus Rose.

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:  Echinocactus Link & Otto

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 for this basionym:

Ancistrocactus (K. Schum.) Britton & Rose

Ferocactus subg. Ancistrocactus (K. Schum.) N.P. Taylor

Keywords: FNA