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

Authors:

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de

Published In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1: 539. 1783. (Encycl.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Burm. Amer. Tab. 196. Cette plante est commune à St. Dominque, Plum. Mss.

Collector and Number: not indicated in protologue

Distribution: Dominican Republic

Institution(s): not indicated in protologue

Type Specimens

• LT: HAITI. Port de Paix, Plumier illustration, Opuntia arbor excelsa, Cereiformis, flore albo. Reproduced in Burman (1758: tab. 196), Hunt (1984: 62), and Mottram (2002: 109).

  • Lectotype designated by:  Zappi, D. C. 1994. Pilosocereus (Cactaceae): The genus in Brazil. Succ. Pl. Res. 3: 1–160.

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:

Cephalocereus polygonus (Lam.) Britton & Rose

Cereus polygonus (Lam.) DC.

Pilocereus polygonus (Lam.) K. Schum.

Pilosocereus polygonus (Lam.) Byles & G.D. Rowley

Projects: VPA

Keywords: VPA, JCS