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Discocactus horstii, Minas Gerais, BR (c) Agente Itallo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2023-03-07

Discocactus horstii Buining & Brederoo

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 20 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Discocactus horstii is a species of Discocactus found in Brazil.

Text from Wikipedia, “Discocactus horstii”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Discocactus

Discocactus is a genus of tropical cacti. Discocactus plants are endemic to southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, and northern Paraguay. These species are in the risk of extinction in the wild.

Text from Wikipedia, “Discocactus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Buining & Brederoo
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
6 in range· 3 open

Also known as Discocactus woutersianus Brederoo & Broek.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Discocactus, 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 Southeast
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-16.498, -42.91 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 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

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Photographs: (c) Agente Itallo, some rights reserved (CC BY) (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 Discocactus horstii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Micromorfología y anatomía de las espinas de Turbinicarpus (Cactaceae)
Alessadro Mosco (2009) · Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
Cactaceae do Vale do Rio Jequitinhonha (Minas Gerais)
Nigel P. Taylor, Daniela C. Zappi (1991) · Acta Botanica Brasilica
Comércio legal de cactos ornamentais: oportunidade para uso sustentável no semiárido do Brasil
Arnóbio de Mendonça Barreto Cavalcante, Gabriella Carla Leite de Vasconcelos (2017) · Revista Econômica do Nordeste
A microendemic and enigmatic new cactus species from the campo rupestre of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Uebelmannia nuda (Cactaceae, Cactoideae)
Daniela C. Zappi, Nigel P. Taylor, Fabiane Nepomuceno Costa, Simone Nunes Fonseca (2024) · Taxon
A survey of user attitudes towards the proposed IUCN Green Status of Species
(2021)
Catalogue of Plant Collections No. 7
Lenka Mártonfiová, Pavol Mártonfi (2020) · Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach - Vydavateľstvo ŠafárikPress eBooks
UM BREVE DIAGNÓSTICO AMBIENTAL DO PARQUE ESTADUAL DE GRÃO MOGOL (MG) E SEU CONTEXTO ESPACIAL
Diego de Sousa Ribeiro Fonseca, Simone Narciso Lessa (2010) · Caminhos de Geografia
Germination of Endangered Cactaceae Species from Parque Estadual De Grão Mogol (Mg –Brazil) as Affected by Temperature
Márcia Bacelar (2022) · SSRN Electronic Journal
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Other Discocactus 11 in the reference

Discocactus bahiensis Cactaceae
Discocactus boliviensis Cactaceae Discocactus catingicola Cactaceae Discocactus diersianus Cactaceae Discocactus fariae-peresii Cactaceae Discocactus ferricola Cactaceae Discocactus hartmannii Cactaceae Discocactus heptacanthus Cactaceae Discocactus placentiformis Cactaceae Discocactus pseudoinsignis Cactaceae Discocactus zehntneri Cactaceae

History & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist
Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped
inat.taxon not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive)
inat.photos.wild answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped
inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.