External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77075782-1
- Publication
- Bradleya; Yearbook of the British Cactus and Succulent Society. Botley
- Collation
- 23: 1 (-6; figs. 1-9)
- Date of Publication
- 22 Jul 2005
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cactaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Pinto & Kirberg 157665
- Locality
- Provincia de Iquique, Comuna de Iquique
- Type Herbaria
- holotype CONC
- Distribution Of Types
- Tarapacá (Chile North, Southern South America, Southern America)
- Type Remarks
- Precise locality withheld because of the critically endangered status of this new taxon.
Nomenclatural Notes
as 'caligophila'
Remarks
Etymology: species refers to the complete dependence of the plants on fog, and is derived from the Latin, caligo, meaning fog, and -philus from the Greek meaning loving (corrected for genetive singular of fog, 'caliginis').
Links
- Basionym of
- Islaya caligophila (R.Pinto) Faúndez & R.Kiesling, Darwiniana 45(2): 237 (2007).
- Basionym of
- Neoporteria caligophila (R.Pinto) Lodé, Cact.-Avent. Int. 98(Suppl.): 7 (2013).
- Basionym of
- Guerreroa caliginiphila (R.Pinto) Lodé, Cact.-Advent. Int. [Almeria] 36: 135 (2024), nom. inval.
- Basionym of
- Guerreroa caliginiphila (R.Pinto) Lodé, Cact.-Advent. Int. [Almeria] 36(Suppl. 2): 2 (2024).