- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:921173-1
- Species Name
- Melocactus melocactoides DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 3: 461 (1828).
- Publication
- Melocactus no Brasil
- Collation
- 82 (1982), without basionym ref.
- Date of Publication
- 1982
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cactaceae