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The Werner Rauh Heritage Project
Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg (COS Heidelberg)
Dept. Biodiversity and Plant Systematics
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Rauh K 26a (1954)
Tephrocactus floccosus subvar. aurescens
Tephrocactus floccosus subv. aurescens [= Basionym]

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alternative gathering number: K26a
Collector(s): Werner Rauh
URCI*: 540012002665 • WRHP-Entry: 1286 • Typus!
Taxon (Basionym): Tephrocactus floccosus (Salm-Dyck) Backeb. subv. aurescens Rauh & Backeb. Details on Taxon 239
(Cactaceae) — WRHP-Taxon 239
Collected as: «[unknown]»
Name(s) of accession: Tephrocactus floccosus subvar. aurescens  Tropicos
Collected part: , nothing indicated
Gathering date: 1954
Location (Entry): «Peruvia (Prope Oroya) {Peru (nearby Oroya)}»

Peru (PE), Departamento Junín, Provincia Yauli, Distrito La Oroya, next inhabited place Oroya
Estimated precision of locality data: ±10 km
  Location was concluded from protologue: Curt Backeberg (1957): Descriptiones Cactacearum Novarum, p.7.
Source of data: Protologue Curt Backeberg (1957): Descriptiones Cactacearum Novarum, p. 7.
Taxon set by Christof Nikolaus Schröder (CNS) according to protologue.
Dataset rudimentary; at least legname, legnumber, legdate, fieldbook page and taxon    succulent plant

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Title: The Werner Rauh Heritage Project: Rauh K 26a (1954) — Tephrocactus floccosus subvar. aurescens Rauh & Backeb. (Cactaceae)
URL:</entry?1286> [2025-07-20]

The project and database design have been announced in the following paper:
Authors: Marcus A. Koch, Christof Nikolaus Schröder, Markus Kiefer & Peter Sack (2013)
Title: A treasure trove of plant biodiversity from the 20th century: the Werner Rauh Heritage Project at Heidelberg Botanical Garden and Herbarium.
In: Plant Systematics and Evolution, November 2013, Vol. 299, Issue 9, pp. 17931800. [online]



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