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

Authors:

Miller, Philip

Published In: The Gardeners Dictionary: eighth edition Opuntia no. 4. 1768. (Gard. Dict. (ed. 8))

Type-Protologue

Locality: No type indicated

Type Specimens

• LT: Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: t. 294 (1732); ;

  • Lectotype designated by:  Howard, R. A. & M. Touw. 1982. Opuntia species in the Lesser Antilles. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 54(4): 174.

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:

Cactus tuna var. elatior (Mill.) Sims

Projects: Antioquia , Flora of Panama , IPCN , Mesoamericana , Panama , VPA

Common Names:

• Tuno elatior (Spanish, Panama)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie & S. Knapp. 2024. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): ined. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Keywords: NWG, IPCN