Cactaceae

Harrisia Britton

First published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35: 561 (1908 publ. 1909)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Florida to Caribbean, Bolivia to Brazil and N. Argentina.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Jamaica, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Uruguay

Introduced into:

Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Free State, Hawaii, KwaZulu-Natal, New South Wales, Queensland

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2016 s.coll. [0] K000251439 No
Jan 1, 2016 s.coll. [0] K000100012 No
Killip [32033] United States K000101037 Yes
s. coll. [s.n.] K000101061 Yes
Shafer [132] Paraguay K000101052 No
Nee [46559] Bolivia K000100245 No
Brown, E., N. [0] K000101062 No
Brown, E., N. [0] K000101063 No
Zappi, D.C. [113] Paraguay K000323740 No
Lord Mayne Australia K:SPC-29047.188 No
Robinson, R., J. [0] United States K000101038 Yes
Pedersen [5871A] Argentina K000101055 No
Wells, J., M. [4256] K000101036 No
Pedersen [5871] Argentina K000101054 No
Eriocereus K:SPC-25057.000 No

Sources

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0