Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon

Authors:

Itô, Yoshi

Published In: Explanatory Diagram of Austroechinocactinae 292. 1957. (Explan. Diagr. Austroechinocactinae)

Type-Protologue

Distribution: Paraguay

Note: The species was described by Y. Itô in Explanatory Diagram of Austroechinocactinae in 1957. Plants used for the description were grown from seeds collected in the Chaco of Paraguay by Adolfo Maria Friedrich, who found the first plants of this species during the Chaco war from 1933 to 1935. Locations from which he collected seeds and plants were Isla Poi, about 50 kilometres south-east of Filadelfia, and the north-west of Paraguay, between Nueva Asuncion and Gral. E. A. Garay. http://www.richtstatt.de/gymnos_v3/news.php?l=en

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:  !Gymnocalycium Pfeiff. ex Mittler

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: Bolivia , VPA

Keywords: BOL, VPA