Group: Dicot Rank: variety 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: 307. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. Arizona. South of the Gila. 1855 [collector from Descr. Cact.;collection number and date from Coulter 1896]

Collector and Number: A. Schott 5

Distribution: USA (Arizona)

Institution(s): HT (probably, possibly ST/LT, lectotypified by Coulter): MO

Note: Engelmann & Bigelow cite place of publication as P.R. Rep. (=Descr. Cact. in TL2)[page 51]. But Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts probably published first.

Type Specimens

• HT: Arthur Schott - 5 - MO - (BC:MO-178850/A:2015359). (MO - (BC:MO-178850/A:2015359))

  • Annotation: possible ST; then lecto Coulter 1896

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.
• species:  Opuntia whipplei Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow

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 imbricata subsp. spinosior (Engelm.) M.A. Baker, Cloud-H. & Majure

Cylindropuntia imbricata var. spinosior (Engelm.) M.A. Baker, Cloud-H. & Majure

Cylindropuntia spinosior (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth

Grusonia spinosior (Engelm.) Goodwyn ex G.D. Rowley

Opuntia spinosior (Engelm.) Toumey

Projects: VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA