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

Authors:

Backeberg, Curt

Published In: Descriptiones Cactacearum Novarum 36. 1956[1957]. (Descr. Cact. Nov.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Peru. Piura.

Collector and Number: Rauh K37

Distribution: Peru

Institution(s): HT: ZSS ?

Note: Neotype: Backeberg, Cactaceae. Abb. 2454. 1960. Designated by N.P. Taylor. Bradleya 9: 67. 1991.

Type Specimens

• NT: Backeberg (1960): Abb. 2454; ; NT designateb by N.P. Nigel, Bradleya 9: 67 (1991)

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:  !!Melocactus Link & Otto

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.

Projects: Peru

Keywords: CEC, CFP, PERU