Melocactus caroli-linnaei N.P.Taylor

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 14 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Melocactus caroli-linnaei is a cactus found in Jamaica. When mature it is columnar, up to 1 m (3.3 ft) high. Like all species of Melocactus, it forms a "cephalium" when mature – a dense mass of areoles covered with wool and spines at the tip of the stem. Flowers are produced only from the cephalium.

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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

N.P.Taylor

Native to

Jamaica

Wild records

16 in range· 4 open

Also known as Cactus melocactus L.; Melocactus melocactus (L.) H.Karst.

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: 16 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

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.

NativeJamaica

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker17.817, -76.803 · in the densest population, 16 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 1 record outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 16 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 16 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Tyler Irvin, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Millie Basden, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Emily Hjalmarson, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Judd Patterson, some rights reserved (CC BY); Millie Basden, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF.

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

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