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

Authors:

Pfeiffer, Louis (Ludwig) Karl George

Published In: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 8(36): 282. 1840. (5 Sept 1840) (Allg. Gartenzeitung)
Annotation: as "Auberi"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Auf Cuba.

Distribution: Cuba

Type Specimens

• NT: Salvador Arias Montes - 949 - MEXU. (MEXU) Photo cited by Scheinvar & Olalde is not the same as the specimen they designated as NT in text.

  • Neotype designated by:  Scheinvar, L. & G. Olalde Parra. 2008. Tipificación de algunas cactáceas del estado de Guerrero. Cact. Suc. Mex. 53(2): 38.

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:

Nopalea auberi (Pfeiff.) Salm-Dyck

Projects: Mesoamericana , VPA

Common Names:

• Lengua de vaca (Spanish, Mexico, Chiapas)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. (eds.) 2025. Fl. Mesoamer. 2(1): in press. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
• nopal (Spanish, Mexico, Chiapas)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. (eds.) 2025. Fl. Mesoamer. 2(1): in press. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Keywords: NWG, JCS