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

Authors:

Britton, Nathaniel Lord
Rose, Joseph Nelson

Published In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16(7): 241, t. 73. 1912-1916[1913]. (10 Apr 1913) (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Panama: collected on mountains above Chepo, 15 Oct 1911, and flowered in Washington Apr 1912

Collector and Number: H. Pittier 4571

Distribution: Panama

Institution(s): HT: US-691299

Type Specimens

• HT: Henri Pittier - 4571 - US - (BC:US00026897/A:691299). (US - (BC:US00026897/A:691299))

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:

Pseudorhipsalis amazonica subsp. panamensis (Britton & Rose) Ralf Bauer

Wittiocactus panamensis (Britton & Rose) Rauschert

Projects: Flora of Panama , Mesoamericana , Panama

Keywords: CEC, PAN