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: 291–292. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. New Mexico, Arizona, California. western Colorado country between New Mexico and California [on both sides of Colorado] from San Francisco mts. to [ the headwaters William's river called Bill Williams' fork and] Mojave creek. 1853/1854

Collector and Number: [Bigelow s.n.]

Distribution: USA. New Mexico, Arizona, California

Institution(s): MO

Note: [] Type information from Expl. railroad Mississippi Pacific 4 (5,pt 3): 38. 1856; cited as P.R.R. lecto.-Benson, Cacti U.S. Canada 932. 1982. Bigelow. Arizona. 2 Jan. 1853

Type Specimens

• ST: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178072/A:2046521). (MO - (BC:MO-178072/A:2046521))
• LT: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178073/A:2016375). (MO - (BC:MO-178073/A:2016375))

  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 932. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• ST: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178073/A:2016375). (MO - (BC:MO-178073/A:2016375))

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: Desert Trees , IPCN , VPA

Keywords: FNA