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

Authors:

Griffiths, David

Published In: Illustrated Studies in the Genus Opuntia. -- II. 88–89, pl. 8, pl. 2, f. 4, 7, f. 13, f. 5. 1909. (22 Mar 1909) (Ill. Stud. Opuntia)
Annotation: also in Annual Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 20: 88-89 (14 Jan 1910)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA: Arizona: Collected near Hillside, Arizona, Sept. 10, 1908

Collector and Number: Griffiths 9568

Distribution: USA (Arizona)

Type Specimens

• LT: Griffiths 9567; ; USA: Arizona LT designated by Benson, Cacti U.S. Canada 917 (1982)

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:  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 arbuscula var. congesta (Griffiths) Backeb.

Cylindropuntia congesta (Griffiths) F.M. Knuth

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: FNA