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

Authors:

Alexander, Edward Johnston

Published In: Cactus and Succulent Journal 28(1): 4–6, f. 2–5. 1956. (Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles))

Type-Protologue

Locality: Mexico: Chiapas: in the northern part, in tropical rainforest of the region known as the Selva Negra, between Tapalapa and Blanca Rosa near Santa Lucía and the Río Napak on 9 Feb 1951, and flowered in the conservatories at the New York Botanical Garden the night of 1-2 Jan 1954

Collector and Number: T. MacDougall s.n.

Distribution: Mexico (Chiapas)

Institution(s): HT: NY

Type Specimens

• HT: Thomas B. MacDougall - A198 - NY - (/A:455205). (NY - (/A:455205))

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:  !Epiphyllum Haw.

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:

Chiapasophyllum chrysocardium (Alexander) Doweld

Marniera chrysocardium (Alexander) Backeb.

Selenicereus chrysocardium (Alexander) Kimnach

Projects: IPCN , Mesoamericana , VPA

Keywords: FM