Group: Dicot Rank: species 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: 260–261. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
Annotation: as "Mamillaria"

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA. Texas. From El Paso Eastward to the San Pedro River

Collector and Number: [C. Wright]

Distribution: USA. Texas.

Institution(s): MO

Note: Engelmann cites Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound., Cact. 3. 1859 (as B.C.R.) and information in [] is from that source. LT Benson 1982: 956. "Found from San Felipe creek to the Pecos" "First seen at a creek 3 miles West of Toquete creek thence on to the Pecos". Wright (box)

Type Specimens

• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-148469/A:2239945). (MO - (BC:MO-148469/A:2239945))
• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-148470/A:2238523). (MO - (BC:MO-148470/A:2238523))
• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - 121 - MO - (BC:MO-148471/A:209554). (MO - (BC:MO-148471/A:209554)) paralectotype

  • Annotation: probably
• LT: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-148472/A:2239950). (MO - (BC:MO-148472/A:2239950))

  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1982. Cact. U.S. Canada 956. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• ILT: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - POM - (/A:POM-317816). (POM - (/A:POM-317816))
• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. - MO - (BC:MO-148472/A:2239950). (MO - (BC:MO-148472/A:2239950))

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:  !!Mammillaria 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:

Cactus micromeris (Engelm.) Kuntze

Cephalomamillaria micromeris (Engelm.) Frič

Echinocactus micromeris (Engelm.) F.A.C. Weber

Epithelantha micromeris (Engelm.) F.A.C. Weber ex Britton & Rose

Projects: VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA