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: 37, f. 46–47. 1920. (9 Sep 1920) (Cact.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Venezuela: collected just below Zig Zag, between La Guayara abd Caracas, 25 Oct 1916

Collector and Number: Rose & Rose 21889

Distribution: Trinidad, Venezuela

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 smithianus (Britton & Rose) Werderm.

Cereus smithianus (Britton & Rose) Werderm.

Monvillea smithiana (Britton & Rose) Backeb.

Praecereus euchlorus subsp. smithianus (Britton & Rose) N.P. Taylor

Praecereus smithianus (Britton & Rose) Buxb.

Keywords: JCS