Family:
Cactaceae Juss.
Genus:
Thelocactus (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose

Thelocactus leucacanthus (Zucc. ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose

This species is accepted, and its native range is Mexico (Guanajuato to Hidalgo).

Native to:

Mexico Northeast

Thelocactus leucacanthus (Zucc. ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
K000250613 No
K000250612 No

First published in Cact. 4: 8 (1923)

Accepted by

  • Hernández, H.M. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. (2015). Mapping the cacti of Mexico part II. Mammillaria Succulent Plant Research 9: 1-189.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Hernández, H.M. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. (2015). Mapping the cacti of Mexico part II. Mammillaria Succulent Plant Research 9: 1-189.

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0