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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)

Published In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 307. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
Annotation: as "Bigelovii"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Arizona: On Williams's river, a branch of the Colorado

Collector and Number: [Bigelow s.n.]

Distribution: USA (Arizona); Mexico (Sonora & Baja California)

Note: Benson, Cacti U.S. Canada 915. 1982 NT: Benson & Darrow 10766. Arizona. POM Engelmann cites place of publication as P.R.R. (=Descr. Cact. in TL2)[page 50, T 19, f. 1-7]. But Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts probably published first. Coulter (1896) cites see the Bigelow type specimen.

Type Specimens

• NT: Lyman D. Benson - 10766 - POM - (/A:274052). (POM - (/A:274052))

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 bigelovii (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: MAD, FNA