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: 298. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. Texas. common about Presidio del Norte on Rio Grande [Bigelow]; [Mexico. Durango (as SE Chhuahua0. in lowwer valley of Nazas, Gregg]

Collector and Number: [Bigelow s.n.; Gregg s.n]

Distribution: USA. Texas; Mexico Durango

Institution(s): MO

Note: Engelmann cites Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound., Cact. 47. 1859 (as B.C.R.) and information in [] is from that source

Type Specimens

• LT: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-177237/A:2015350). (MO - (BC:MO-177237/A:2015350))

  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 922. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• ST: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-177237/A:2015350). (MO - (BC:MO-177237/A:2015350))
• ST: Josiah Gregg - 634 - MO - (BC:MO-177272/A:2015354). (MO - (BC:MO-177272/A:2015354))
• LT: Bigelow s.n.; Aug 1852; Mexico: Presidio del Norte LT designated by Benson, Cact. U.S. Canada 922 (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:

!Opuntia microdasys subsp. rufida (Engelm.) U. Guzmán & Mandujano

**Opuntia microdasys subsp. rufida (Engelm.) U. Guzmán & Mandujano

Opuntia microdasys var. rufida (Engelm.) K. Schum.

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA, FWT