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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)
Bigelow, John Milton

Published In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 308. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
Annotation: Engelmann & Bigelow cite place of publication as P.R. Rep. (=Descr. Cact. in TL2)[page 51, T 18, f, 1-3 & T24, f.11]. But Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts probably published first.

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. [Arizona? New Mexico?]. On the mountains of Cactus Pass, about 500 miles W of Santa Fe [from Descr. Cact.]. 1854 [from Coulter 1896]

Collector and Number: Bigelow s.n.

Distribution: USA (Arizona)

Institution(s): [MO from Coulter, 1896]

Note: Benson could not find types, named neotype Cacti States and Canada 913. 1982. Lyman Benson & Robert Darrow 10874. USA. Arizona. 18 April 1941. POM 274024

Type Specimens

• NT: Lyman D. Benson - 10874 - POM - (/A:274024). (POM - (/A:274024))

  • Neotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 913. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• NT: Benson & Darrow 10874; ; USA: Arizona NT designated by Benson, Cact. U.S. Canada 913 (1982)

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.

Other names for this basionym:

Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) F.M. Knuth

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: FNA