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Melocactus broadwayi

Melocactus broadwayi (Britton & Rose) Houghton is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1

The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Melocactus.12

Its recorded native range/source remark is WINSL, SOUTHERNAMERICA, WINSV, TRTOO, CARIBBEAN, TRT, WINMA, WIN, WINGR, WINDO, WINBA; Windward Is. to Tobago.1

POWO records the plant context as succulent subshrub, seasonally dry tropical.1

This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.

References

  1. Plants of the World Online. "Melocactus broadwayi (Britton & Rose) Houghton". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:135406-1 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Melocactus broadwayi". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/5384245 ↩
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Windward Is. to Tobago

Automatically collected source range/note: WIN_SL, SOUTHERN_AMERICA, WIN_SV, TRT_OO, CARIBBEAN, TRT, WIN_MA, WIN, WIN_GR, WIN_DO, WIN_BA; Windward Is. to Tobago.