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

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 466. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in Curacao, America calidore

Type Specimens

• NT: Hummelinck 196 (flor.) & 170 (fruct.); ; West Indies: Curacao NT designated as "lectotype" by Hummelinck (1938). Since two collections were cited, this typification is ineffective.

  • Type discussion:  Hummelinck, P. W. 1938. Over Cereus repandus, Cephalocereus lanuginosus, Lemaireocereus griseus en Acanthocereus tetragonus. III. Succulenta (Netherlands) 20(11): 170.

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:

Acanthocereus tetragonus (L.) Hummelinck

Cereus tetragonus (L.) Mill.

Projects: Mesoamericana , VPA

Keywords: FVG, FNA