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: 261. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
Annotation: as "Mamillaria"

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. Texas. [About Leon Spring and Camanche Spring W of the] Pecos river, West Texas. fl. [April] May

Collector and Number: [possibly C. Wright s.n., see Engelmann 1859]

Distribution: USA (Texas)

Note: Engelmann cites Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound., Cact. 47. 1859 (as B.C.R.) and information in [] is from that source Same information given for both α variety (minor = type variety) and β denudata

Type Specimens

• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-179274/A:2239936). (MO - (BC:MO-179274/A:2239936))

  • Annotation: possible ST? Engelmann label α = type variety
• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-179275/A:111777). (MO - (BC:MO-179275/A:111777))
• LT: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-179275/A:111777). (MO - (BC:MO-179275/A:111777))

  • Annotation: Benson 1 sheet and box
  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 966. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

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:  !!Mammillaria Haw.

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 lasiacanthus (Engelm.) Kuntze

Neomammillaria lasiacantha (Engelm.) Britton & Rose

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: FNA, FWT