⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.
This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-2772850, with some changes.
This name is a synonym of Discocactus zehntneri .
The record derives from WCSP (in review) which reports it as a synonym with original publication details: Kaktusy (Brno) 19: 26 1983.