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Melocactus intortus (Mill.) Urb. is an accepted name

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

The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 5100375) with original publication details: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 35 1919.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:156828-2.

Synonyms:

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Cactus antonii Britton	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cactus communis (W.T.Aiton) Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cactus intortus Mill.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cactus melocactus var. communis Aiton	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Echinocactus intortus (Mill.) DC.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Melocactus amoenus Hoffmanns.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus antonii (Britton) F.M. Knuth	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus communis (Aiton) Link & Otto	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melocactus intortus var. antonii (Britton) Backeb.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record tro-5100375.

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