Opuntia inaequilateralis A.Berger (1905:453)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Platyopuntia inaequilateralis (A.Berger) F.Ritter in Kakteen Südamerika 4: 1256 (1981); Platyopuntia inaequilateralis var. angustior F.Ritter in Kakteen Südamerika 4: 1257 (1981); Opuntia inaequilateralis var. angustior (F.Ritter) R.Crook & Mottram in Bradleya 17: 113 (1999)
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild (Hunt, 1992 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Last wild record: uncertain (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
Peru
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Hunt, D. (1992). CITES Cactaceae Checklist: 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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