Melocactus lanssensianus, Pernambuco, BR

Melocactus lanssensianus P.J.Braun

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 12 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Melocactus lanssensianus is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are rocky areas and hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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About the genus · Melocactus

Melocactus, also known as the Turk's head cactus, Turk's cap cactus, or Pope's head cactus, is a genus of cactus with about 30–40 species. They are native to the Caribbean, western Mexico through Central America to northern South America, with some species along the Andes down to southern Peru, and a concentration of species in northeastern Brazil.

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Family

Cactaceae

Described by

P.J.Braun

Native to

Brazil Northeast

Wild records

6 in range· 5 open

Also known as Melocactus lanssersianus P.J.Braun.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Melocactus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeBrazil Northeast

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-7.101, -35.825 · in the densest population, 5 records (83% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 15 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Gustavo Sandres, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Gustavo Sandres, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Melocactus lanssensianus, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Endangered globose cactus Melocactus lanssensianus P. J. Braun depends on lizards for effective seed dispersal in the Brazilian Caatinga

Vanessa Gabrielle Nóbrega Gomes, Ricardo Koroiva, Carlos Alberto Lins Cassimiro, Fabiane Rabelo da Costa Batista (2021) · Plant Ecology

Melocactus lanssensianus: Braun, P. & Taylor, N.P.

IUCN (2010) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

IN VITRO CLONING OF Melocactus lanssensianus, AN ORNAMENTAL CACTUS ENDEMIC TO THE BRAZILIAN SEMIARID REGION AND THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION

Luane Portela Carmo, Ana Paula Pereira Medeiros Brito, Aline Carla de Medeiros, Carlos Ticiano Coutinho Ramos (2026) · Artefactum

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