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Melocactus ernestii Vaupel is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Melocactus (family Cactaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (in review) (data supplied on 2012-03-23 ) which reports it as an accepted name with original publication details: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 30: 8 1920.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280752-2.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Melocactus azulensis Buining, Brederoo & Theunissen	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus ernestii subsp. ernestii	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus erythracanthus Buining & Brederoo	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus interpositus F. Ritter	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus longispinus Buining, Brederoo & Theunissen	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus nitidus F. Ritter	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus oreas f. azulensis (Buining, Brederoo & Theunissen) P.J. Braun	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus oreas subsp. ernestii (Vaupel) P.J. Braun	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus oreas f. erythracanthus (Buining & Brederoo) P.J. Braun	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus oreas var. longispinus (Buining, Brederoo & Theunissen) P.J. Braun	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18

Infraspecific taxa:

This species contains the following infraspecific taxa*.

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Synonyms
Melocactus ernestii subsp. longicarpus (Buining & Brederoo) N.P. Taylor	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	8

The Plant List does not attempt to include all infraspecific taxa.

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-2370572.

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