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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)
Bigelow, John Milton

Published In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 299. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. West of the Rio Grande to the San Francisco mountains [Colorado Chiquito & on the San Francisco mountains]. 1853

Collector and Number: Bigelow s.n. STs

Distribution: USA [Arizona]

Institution(s): MO

Note: in [] from Expl. railroad Mississippi Pacific 4 (5,pt 3): 44, pl. 15 (f. 5-7). 1856 lecto.-Benson, Cacti U.S. Canada 921. 1982. USA. Arizona, Colorado Chiquito [Little Colorado River], 8 Dec. 1853

Type Specimens

• ST: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178803/A:2015191). (MO - (BC:MO-178803/A:2015191))
• LT: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178804/A:2015190). (MO - (BC:MO-178804/A:2015190))

  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 921. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982, Stanford, CA.
• ST: John Milton Bigelow - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-178804/A:2015190). (MO - (BC:MO-178804/A:2015190))

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 erinacea var. hystricina (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) L.D. Benson

Opuntia polyacantha var. hystricina (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) B.D. Parfitt

Projects: VPA

Keywords: FNA