fmunoz, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF · observed growing wild

Melocactus lemairei (Monv. ex Lem.) Miq.

Lemaire's Turk's Cap Cactus

No habitat climate 24 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Melocactus lemairei is a species of cactus endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. It is named after French botanist and cactus expert Charles Antoine Lemaire.

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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

(Monv. ex Lem.) Miq.

Native to

not verified

Wild records

66 in range· 26 open

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: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

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

NativeNot verified.Reported present (native status not stated): Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti)

Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 26 openly licensed records of 66 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 45 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Photographs: fmunoz, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (8).

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 lemairei, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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