External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5418-1
- Publication
- Definitiones Generum Plantarum (by D. Christiani Gottlieb Ludwig)
- Collation
- 79
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cactaceae
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. rej. vs. Melocactus Link et Otto 1827 (nom. cons.).