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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)

Published In: American Journal of Science and Arts, ser. 2 14(42): 338. 1852. (Nov 1852) (Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. California. San Diego on arid hills and dry creek beds. 1849/1850

Collector and Number: Parry s.n.

Distribution: USA (California)

Note: neo.-Benson, Cacti U.S. Canada 915 (1982). Abrams 3394. USA (California). NT: MO. Coulter 1896:448 reports not finding type at MO

Type Specimens

• NT: LeRoy R. Abrams - 3394 - MO - (BC:MO-178883/A:2015326). (MO - (BC:MO-178883/A:2015326))

  • Neotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 915. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• NT: Abrams 3394; 5 May 1903; USA: California

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 prolifera (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: FNA