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Echinocactus zehntneri (Britton & Rose) Luetzelb.
Estud. Bot. Nordéste 3: 111. 1923 Insp. Fed. Obras Secc. Publ. 57
Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 218. 1922 [12 Oct 1922] Britton & Rose

Echinocactus zehntneri (Discocactus zehntneri) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 218. 1922 [12 Oct 1922]
Synonymy: 13 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Discocactus zehntneri subs. boomianus (Buining & Bredero) N.P.Taylor & Zappi
Bradleya 9: 86 (1991)
Synonymy: 3
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Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Discocactus zehntneri group

  • Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose: Usually globose and completely covered in white thin, needle-like spines, the flower is about 3 cm long and the fruit are red (Origin: Sentocé)
  • Discocactus zehntneri subs. albispinus (Buining & Bredero) P.J.Braun & Esteves: has larger flattend stems. Spines fewer, longer, white and more recurved. Distribution: South-east of Sento Sé in the Serra do San Francisco, Bahia.
  • Discocactus zehntneri subs. araneispinus (Buining & Bredero) P.J.Braun & Esteves: It has 10 to15 flexible, interlacing spines up to 1-2 cm long, that are pectinate, flexible, creamy white or whitish-yellow with dark tips, becoming pale-brown to whitish, recurved backwards, sitting on the plant like spiders.
  • Discocactus zehntneri subs. boomianus (Buining & Bredero) N.P.Taylor & Zappi: Usually disk -shaped, with dark tipped yellowish spines, the flowers are up to 9 cm long. It has tuberous roots. (Origin: Morro do Chapéu municipality, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia)
  • Discocactus zehntneri subs. buenekeri (W.R.Abraham) P.J.Braun & Esteves: This species does share the complex commonality of tuberculate ribs and basal offsetting, but its white, club-shaped fruit does not fit with the dark red , much elongated and slender fruit of the other taxa.
  • Discocactus zehntneri subs. horstiorum (P.J.Braun) P.J.Braun & Esteves: Slow growing form (Origin: near Minas do Mimosa, Moreno, Sierra do Espinahaco, Bahia )

22290 Ilham Prof. Ilham Alakbarov
Echinocactus zehntneri (Discocactus zehntneri) Photo by: Prof. Ilham Alakbarov
28112 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Echinocactus zehntneri (Discocactus zehntneri) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger

6585 cactus-art Cactus Art
Echinocactus zehntneri (Discocactus zehntneri) Photo by: Cactus Art
6581 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Echinocactus zehntneri (Discocactus zehntneri) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

6582 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Echinocactus zehntneri (Discocactus zehntneri) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
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