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

Authors:

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert

Published In: Cacteae in Horto Dyckensi Cultae. Anno 1849 236. 1849[1850]. (Cact. Hort. Dyck. (1849))

Type-Protologue

Locality: Cultivated, originally from Chihuahua

Collector and Number: Potts s.n.

Distribution: Mexico (Chihuahua); USA: (New Mexico & Texas)

Type Specimens

• NT: Edward Palmer - 124 - MO - (BC:MO-177235/A:1797126). (MO - (BC:MO-177235/A:1797126))

  • Neotype designated by:  Benson, L. D. 1969. Cacti Arizona (ed. 3) 20.
• NT: E. Palmer 124; 8-27 Apr 1908; Mexico: Vicinity of Chihuahua, alt. 1300 m NT designated by Benson, Cacti Ariz. ed. 3 20, 89 (1969)

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:

**Opuntia macrorhiza subsp. pottsii (Salm-Dyck) U. Guzmán ex Engelm.

Opuntia macrorhiza var. pottsii (Salm-Dyck) L.D. Benson

!Opuntia megarhiza subsp. pottsii (Salm-Dyck) U. Guzmán & Mandujano

Projects: IPCN , VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA