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

Authors:

Schumann, Karl Moritz

Published In: Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde 13(8): 117–118, f. A–E. 1903. (15 Aug 1903) (Monatsschr. Kakteenk.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Peru: bei Laeticia und auch in der Nähe von Tarapoto, nicht weit von der Grenze gegen Brasilien.

Collector and Number: Ule s.n.

Distribution: Peru

Institution(s): not cited in protologue

Type Specimens

• LT: Ernst Ule - 6189 - HBG. (HBG)

  • Annotation: photo, F-024115
  • Lectotype designated by:  Madsen, J. E. 1989. 45. Cactaceae. 35: ?. In G.W. Harling & L. Andersson (eds.) Fl. Ecuador. University of Göteborg, Göteborg.
• ILT: Ernst Ule - 6189 - G. (G) G superfluously designated as LT by Kimach (1993). Madsen (1989) cites G as isolectotype.

  • Lectotype designated by:  Kimnach, M.W. 1993. The genus Disocactus. Haseltonia 1: 117.

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:  *Wittia K. Schum.

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:

Disocactus amazonicus (K. Schum.) D.R. Hunt

Pseudorhipsalis amazonica (K. Schum.) Ralf Bauer

Wittiocactus amazonicus (K. Schum.) Rauschert

Projects: Ecuador , Mesoamericana , Panama , Peru , VPA

Common Names:

• Lengua de ciervo (Spanish, Costa Rica)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. 2025. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): in press. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Keywords: CEC, FIELD