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

Authors:

Hooker, William Jackson

Published In: Botanical Magazine 79: t. 4707. 1853. (1 Apr 1853) (Bot. Mag.)
Annotation: as "MacDonaldiae"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Received from Honduras through the favour of Mrs. General MacDonald, and planted at the back of the Cactus-house and trailed against the wall

Distribution: Belize

Note: Nelson in Fontqueria 44: 57 (1996) notes that Honduras, as cited in the protologue refers to British Honduras (Belize)

Type Specimens

• T: Mrs. General MacDonald s.n.; ; Belize
• LT: Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79: t. 4707 (1853)

  • Lectotype designated by:  Bauer, R. 2003. A synopsis of the tribe Hylocereeae F. Buxb. Cactaceae Syst. Init. 17: 44.

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:  Cereus Mill.

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:

Selenicereus macdonaldiae (Hook.) Britton & Rose

Selenicereus pteranthus fo. macdonaldiae (Hook.) Ralf Bauer

Projects: Mesoamericana , VPA

Keywords: ARG, BCA, JCS