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

Authors:

Rose, Joseph Nelson

Published In: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 50: 63–64. 1907. (Smithsonian Misc. Collect.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Guatemala: near El Rancho, 1905

Collector and Number: Maxon 3766

Distribution: Guatemala

Institution(s): HT: US-535059

Type Specimens

• HT: Maxon 3766; 1905; Guatemala: El RAncho

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:  ***Cactus L.

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:

Melocactus maxonii (Rose) Gürke

Melocactus ruestii subsp. maxonii (Rose) Elizondo

Projects: Mesoamericana

Keywords: JCS