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

Authors:

Britton, Nathaniel Lord
Rose, Joseph Nelson

Published In: The Cactaceae; descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family 2: 47. 1920. (9 Sep 1920) (Cact.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: In 1918 George F. Gaumer sent living plants from the Yucatán to the New York Botanical Garden and these flowered in 1918

Collector and Number: Dr. George F Gaumer 23934

Distribution: Mexico (Yucatan)

Institution(s): T: NY

Type Specimens

• LT: George F. Gaumer - 23934 - US - (BC:US00115539/A:1038832). (US - (BC:US00115539/A:1038832))

  • Lectotype designated by:  Zappi, D. C. 1994. Pilosocereus (Cactaceae): The genus in Brazil. Succ. Pl. Res. 3: 151.
• ILT: George F. Gaumer - 23934 - NY - (BC:NY-00120553), (BC:NY-00120554), (BC:NY-00120555). (NY - (BC:NY-00120553), (BC:NY-00120554), (BC:NY-00120555))
• ILT: George F. Gaumer - 23934 - NY - (BC:NY-00120553), (BC:NY-00120554), (BC:NY-00120555). (NY - (BC:NY-00120553), (BC:NY-00120554), (BC:NY-00120555))
• ILT: George F. Gaumer - 23934 - NY - (BC:NY-00120553), (BC:NY-00120554), (BC:NY-00120555). (NY - (BC:NY-00120553), (BC:NY-00120554), (BC:NY-00120555))

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:  Cephalocereus Pfeiff.

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:

Cereus gaumeri (Britton & Rose) Standl.

Pilocereus gaumeri (Britton & Rose) F.M. Knuth

Pilosocereus gaumeri (Britton & Rose) Backeb.

Projects: Mesoamericana , VPA

Keywords: VPA, JCS