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

Authors:

Engelmann, Georg (George)

Published In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 276. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA & Mexico. Texas, New Mexico & Chihuahua. From Doñana above El Paso to the Pecos and southward. [stony soil on summit of hills]

Collector and Number: [Wislizenus; Wright;Bigelow; Parry]

Distribution: USA & Mexico. Texas, New Mexico & Chihuahua

Institution(s): MO

Note: Engelmann cites Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound., Cact. 26. 1859 (as B.C.R.) and information in [] is from that source. Coulter 1896:360 cites seeing at MBG the Wright specimens from Texas collected in 1849,1851 and 1852 and Wilslizenus collected in Chuihuahua in 1846. Benson 1982:951 reports seeing at MBG Wright Echinocactus No. 6, 1851; Wright 27 Apr. 1852 stony hills near Frontera; Wright July 1851 Frontera on stony hills and Wright 1 sheet 1851-1852 without other information

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• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Caryophyllanae Takht.
• order:  !Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Cactaceae Juss.
• genus:  Echinocactus Link & Otto
• species:  Echinocactus horizonthalonius Lem.

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:

Echinocactus horizonthalonius fo. centrispinus (Engelm.) Schelle

Keywords: FNA