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Melocactus curvispinus

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Ethnobotanical Use
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Internal ID UUID643ff5276f426317288866
Scientific name Melocactus curvispinus
Authority Pfeiff.
First published in Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 46. 1837.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melocactus guatemalensis Gürke & Eichlam in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 18: 37. 1908.
Melocactus brongnartii Hildm. in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 2: 90. 1892.
Melocactus rustii K.Schum. in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 116. 1896.
Melocactus salvador L.Murillo in Circular 1897 (?): . 1897.
Cactus obtusipetalus Britton & Rose Cactaceae 3: 232. 1922.
Cactus ruestii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose Cactaceae 3: 227. 1922.
Cactus salvador (L.Murillo) Britton & Rose Cactaceae 3: 228. 1922.
Melocactus ruestii K.Schum. Verz. Cact.: 26. 1896.
Melocactus crassicostatus Lem. Cact. Aliq. Nov.: 13. 1838.
Melocactus obtusipetalus var. crassicostatus (Lem.) Lem. ex Miq. Monogr. Melocacti: 56. 1840.
Melocactus delessertianus Lem. Hort. Universel 1: 225–226. 1839.
Melocactus guitartii León in Mem. Soc. Cub. Hist. Nat. Felipe Poey 8: 207. 1934.
Melocactus curvispinus subsp. cucutensis Xhonneux & Fern.Alonso in Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 26: 356. 2002.
Melocactus guitarti León in Mem. Soc. Cub. Hist. Nat. Felipe Poey 8: 207. 1934.
Melocactus monvilleanus Miq. in Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 18(Suppl. 1): 133. 1841.
Melocactus ruestii K.Schum. in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 116. 1896.
Melocactus ruestii subsp. centalapensis Elizondo in Cact. Suc. Mex. 31: 54. 1986.

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Language Common/alternative name
Spanish pitiguei
Spanish pitigüei
Spanish pitiguey
Spanish pitigüey
Spanish cactus obtusipetalus
Spanish melocactus guitartii
Spanish melocactus ruestii
guc paruluwa
Portuguese cactus obtusipetalus
Portuguese melocactus guitartii
Portuguese melocactus ruestii
Chinese 飞云

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Melocactus curvispinus subsp. caesius (H.L.Wendl.) N.P.Taylor in Bradleya 9: 75. 1991.
Melocactus curvispinus subsp. curvispinus
Melocactus curvispinus subsp. dawsonii (Bravo) N.P.Taylor in Bradleya 9: 77. 1991.
Melocactus curvispinus subsp. koolwijkianus (Suringar) G.Thomson in Bradleya 20: 38. 2002.

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Aruba
      • Cuba
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Venezuelan Antilles
    • Central America
      • Costa Rica
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000369382
Tropicos 5107969
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305646-2
The Plant List kew-2360018
Open Tree Of Life 298107
NCBI Taxonomy 1001108
IUCN Red List 152448
IPNI 305646-2
iNaturalist 206377
GBIF 7280901
EPPO MLZCU
EOL 5175706
USDA GRIN 409353
Wikipedia Melocactus_curvispinus

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Schiedeella bajaverapacensis (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae), a New Orchid Species from Guatemala Archila Morales FL, Lipińska MM, Dudek M, Szlachetko DL Int J Mol Sci 10-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10049113
doi:10.3390/ijms24065362
PMID:36982435
Unraveling Reticulate Evolution in Opuntia (Cactaceae) From Southern Mexico Granados-Aguilar X, Granados Mendoza C, Cervantes CR, Montes JR, Arias S Front Plant Sci 13-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7838128
doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.606809
PMID:33519858
Identification and Determination of Betacyanins in Fruit Extracts of Melocactus Species Sutor K, Wybraniec S J Agric Food Chem 15-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7584357
doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.0c04746
PMID:32931695
Anatomy, Flow Cytometry, and X-Ray Tomography Reveal Tissue Organization and Ploidy Distribution in Long-Term In Vitro Cultures of Melocactus Species Torres-Silva G, Matos EM, Correia LF, Fortini EA, Soares WS, Batista DS, Otoni CG, Azevedo AA, Viccini LF, Koehler AD, Resende SV, Specht CD, Otoni WC Front Plant Sci 31-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7488924
doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.01314
PMID:32983203
Effectiveness of the mixture of nopal and cassava starch as clarifying substances in water purification: A case study in Colombia Lugo-Arias J, Lugo-Arias E, Ovallos-Gazabon D, Arango J, de la Puente M, Silva J Heliyon 26-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7327736
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04296
PMID:32637691
Cultural significance of the flora of a tropical dry forest in the Doche vereda (Villavieja, Huila, Colombia) Rosero-Toro JH, Romero-Duque LP, Santos-Fita D, Ruan-Soto F J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 22-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC5865281
doi:10.1186/s13002-018-0220-0
PMID:29566709
Population Genetic Structure of a Widespread Bat-Pollinated Columnar Cactus Bustamante E, Búrquez A, Scheinvar E, Eguiarte LE PLoS One 25-Mar-2016
PMCID:PMC4820105
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152329
PMID:27015281
Plant traits correlated with generation time directly affect inbreeding depression and mating system and indirectly genetic structure Duminil J, Hardy OJ, Petit RJ BMC Evol Biol 27-Jul-2009
PMCID:PMC2728730
doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-177
PMID:19635127
Reproductive Biology and Mating System Estimates of Two Andean Melocacti, Melocactus schatzlii and M. andinus (Cactaceae) Nassar JM, Ramírez N, Lampo M, González JA, Casado R, Nava F Ann Bot 03-Nov-2006
PMCID:PMC2802972
doi:10.1093/aob/mcl229
PMID:17085474

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