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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)

In Authors:

Wislizenus, Friedrich (Frederick) Adolph

Published In: Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition in 1846 and 1847 95. 1848. (Mem. Tour N. Mexico)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. New Mexico. About Albuquerque (Wislizenus); About Santa Fe [on high plains, never on mountains] (Fendler)

Collector and Number: Wislizenus s.n.; Fendler [275]

Distribution: USA (New Mexico)

Note: [] from Coulter 1896:442

Type Specimens

• ST: Augustus Fendler - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178077/A:2015160). (MO - (BC:MO-178077/A:2015160))

  • Annotation: two sheets same acc. no., two dates
• LT: Augustus Fendler - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178077/A:2015160). (MO - (BC:MO-178077/A:2015160))

  • Annotation: flowering, 1846 only
  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 917. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• ST: A. Wislizenius s.n.; ; USA: New Mexico: about Albuquerque

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 clavatus (Engelm.) Lem.

Corynopuntia clavata (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth

Grusonia clavata (Engelm.) H. Rob.

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: FNA, FWT