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

Authors:

Gómez Pignataro, Luis Diego

Published In: Brenesia 10/11: 128, f. 1–3. 1977. (Brenesia)
Annotation: as "Sanctae-Rosae"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Costa Rica. Guanacaste: Playas de Nacite [sic], Parque Nacional de Santa Rosa, elev. 15-20 m, sobre rocas al pie de una ~Bursera~ sp. arbustiva

Collector and Number: Gómez, Janzen & DeVries 4717

Distribution: Costa Rica

Institution(s): HT: CR

Type Specimens

• HT: Gómez, Jansen & De Vries 4717; ; Costa Rica: Guanacaste: Parque Nacional de Santa Rosa, Playa de Nancite

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:  !!Melocactus Link & Otto
• species:  Melocactus maxonii (Rose) Gürke

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:

Melocactus ruestii subsp. sanctae-rosae (L.D. Gómez) Elizondo

Projects: Mesoamericana

Keywords: JCS