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): 339. 1852. (Nov 1852) (Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. California. Gravelly soil near the Colorado and in the desert. 1849/1850

Collector and Number: Parry s.n.

Distribution: USA. California

Note: Neither Coulter 1896 nor Benson could find types in Engelmann herbarium

Type Specimens

• NT: Arthur Schott - 2 - MO - (BC:MO-177240/A:2015349). (MO - (BC:MO-177240/A:2015349))

  • Neotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 916. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• NT: Schott 2; Sept 1855; Mexico: North Western Sonora, Sierra Pala NT designated by Benson, Cact. U.S. Canada 916 (1982)

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• 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 ramosissima (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA, FWT