Melocactus violaceus

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Internal ID UUID643ff5cbabc82785538080
Scientific name Melocactus violaceus
Authority Pfeiff.
First published in in Allg. Gartenzeitung 3: 313. 1835.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melocactus goniodacanthus Lem. Cact. Aliq. Nov.: 11. 1838.
Melocactus gardenerianus Booth ex C.F.Först. Handb. Cacteenk.: 277. 1846.
Melocactus parthonii Miq. in Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 18(Suppl. 1): 190. 1841.
Cactus depressus (Hook.) Borg Cacti: 279. 1937.
Cactus melocactoides Hoffmanns. in Verz. Pfl.-Kult. Nachtr. 3: 24. 1826.
Cactus meonacanthus Lem. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 246. 1840.
Cereus meonacanthus Link & Otto ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 334. 1840.
Echinocactus meonacanthus Link & Otto in Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 3: 428. 1827.
Melocactus depressus Hook. in Bot. Mag. 65: t. 3691. 1838.
Melocactus melocactoides (Hoffmanns.) DC. Prodr. 3: 461. 1828.
Melocactus melocactoides f. civitatis Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 81–83. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides f. exsanguis Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 83–84, f. 52, 54. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides var. depressus (Hook.) Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 82. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides f. depressus (Hook.) Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 82, 84. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides var. itaipuassuensis Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 82, 84. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides var. violaceus (Pfeiff.) Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 81, 83. 1982.
Cactus melocactus var. depressus Aiton Hort. Kew. 2: 150. 1789.
Melocactus violaceus subsp. natalensis P.J.Braun & Esteves in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 69(2): 71. 1997.
Melocactus melocactoides f. capensis Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 83. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides f. perspinosus Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 82. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides f. sanctaritae Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 83. 1982.
Melocactus melocactoides var. natalensis Rizzini Melocactus Bras.: 82, 84. 1982.

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Chinese 裳云

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Melocactus violaceus subsp. margaritaceus N.P.Taylor in Bradleya 9: 57. 1991.
Melocactus violaceus subsp. ritteri N.P.Taylor in Bradleya 9: 57. 1991.
Melocactus violaceus subsp. violaceus

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World Flora Online wfo-0000375270
Tropicos 5107945
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:303762-2
The Plant List kew-2370342
Open Tree Of Life 5761392
NCBI Taxonomy 2944982
IUCN Red List 40925
IPNI 303762-2
iNaturalist 440372
GBIF 7280199
Freebase /m/02xbl7z
EOL 5175761
USDA GRIN 409354
Wikipedia Melocactus_violaceus

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Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati Alcàntara-Rodríguez M, Françozo M, Van Andel T Sci Rep 05-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8492696
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-99226-8
PMID:34611224
The role of schools as an opportunity for transmission of local knowledge about useful Restinga plants: experiences in southeastern Brazil van Luijk N, Soldati GT, da Fonseca-Kruel VS J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 17-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8130333
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00461-0
PMID:34001189
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
Long‐term regeneration of a tropical plant community after sand mining Garbin ML, Misaki F, Ferreira PF, Guidoni‐Martins KG, Soares RB, Mariotte P, Sansevero JB, Rocha PG, Silva AG Ecol Evol 04-May-2018
PMCID:PMC6010909
doi:10.1002/ece3.4111
PMID:29938087

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