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: 304. 1856. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
Annotation: as "Grahami"

Type-Protologue

Locality: [USA. Texas]. Sandy bottoms of the Rio Grande near El Paso [and for a distance of about 100 miles from the river]. Fl. june.

Collector and Number: [Wright s.n.; Bigelow s.n.]

Distribution: USA (Texas)

Note: Engelmann cites Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound., Cact. 55. 1859 (as B.C.R.) and information in [] is from that source. Coulter 1896: 443 cites Wright specimens of 1851 at MO (10, 40, and 539).

Type Specimens

• LT: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. "Opuntia no. 10" - MO - (BC:MO-178275/A:2015356). (MO - (BC:MO-178275/A:2015356))

  • Annotation: Benson also states pl. 72 (1859) p.p.LT/ ok? ET?
  • Lectotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1969. The cacti of the United States and Canada - new names and nomenclatural combinations - I. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 124.
• ST: Charles (Carlos) Wright - s.n. "Opuntia no. 10" - MO - (BC:MO-178275/A:2015356). (MO - (BC:MO-178275/A:2015356))
• LT: Wright s.n. "Opuntia No. 10"; 1851; USA: Texas: "Sandy bottoms of the Rio Grande near El Paso: fl. June" LT designated by L. Benson, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 124 (1969); Benson also states plate 72 as part of Lectotype

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:  Opuntia 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:

Corynopuntia grahamii (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth

Grusonia grahamii (Engelm.) H. Rob.

Opuntia schottii var. grahamii (Engelm.) L.D. Benson

Projects: VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA