Group: Dicot Rank: variety Kind: Name with Basionym (New Combination and Rank) Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 2nd, B, 210

Authors:

Benson, Lyman David

Published In: The Cacti of Arizona 20. 1969. (Cacti Arizona (ed. 3))
Annotation: as "Pottsii"

Basionym:

Opuntia pottsii Salm-Dyck 

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 macrorhiza Engelm.

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 with  Opuntia pottsii Salm-Dyck  as basionym:

**Opuntia macrorhiza subsp. pottsii (Salm-Dyck) U. Guzmán ex Engelm.

!Opuntia megarhiza subsp. pottsii (Salm-Dyck) U. Guzmán & Mandujano

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: VPA, FNA