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

Authors:

Dietrich, Albert Gottfried

Ex Authors:

Link, Johann Heinrich Friedrich

Published In: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 2(27): 209–211. 1834. (Allg. Gartenzeitung)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in Mexico

Distribution: Mexico

Type Specimens

• NT: Demetrio Álvarez M. - 139 - MO - (BC:MO-189398/A:5208128). (MO - (BC:MO-189398/A:5208128)) NT designation is invalid as original material still exists.

  • Neotype designated by:  Doweld, A. B. 2001 [2002]. Re-classification of Rhipsalideae, a polyphyletic tribe of the Cactaceae durande. Delineatio et revisio criticae tribuum Rhipsalideae DC. et Hylocereeae F. Buxb. (Cactaceae). Sukkulenty 4(1-2): 43.
• LT: A. Dietrich, Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 10: t. IV (1834), as Cereus nycticallus. Dietrich clearly states this plate was made from the very plant they used earlier in the year for the original description. This falls under ICBN Art. 9.10 as uncited original material.

  • Lectotype designated by:  Bauer, R. 2002 [2003]. The typification of Cereus pteranthus Link ex A. Dietr. (Selenicereus pteranthus (Link ex A. Dietr.) Britt. & Rose. Haseltonia 9: 79.

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:  Cereus 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:

Selenicereus pteranthus (Link ex A. Dietr.) Britton & Rose

Projects: Mesoamericana , Panama , VPA

Keywords: FNA, PAN