Melocactus bahiensis (Britton & Rose)

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Origin and Habitat: Eastern Brazil (Bahia)
Habitat: It grows in open savannah biome vegetation in sandy soils developed from siliceous rocks and on gneiss or ancient granite outcropping, often along with Pilosocereus floccosus.

Synonyms:

• Melocactus bahiensis (Britton & Rose)

Common Names include:
PORTUGUESE (Português): Cabeca de Frade

Description: Melocactus bahiensisSN|2283]]SN|2283]] is a small globular cactus easily distinguished by its ribbed stem capped by a cephalium with wool and brown bristles. It remembers a crowned head
Stem: Depressed-spherical, globose or pyramidal, light to dark green 10-21 cm tall, 11-21 cm in diameter in diameter.
Ribs: (8-)10-12(-14) flattened to acute and quite variable in shape.
Areoles: White10-24 mm apart.
Cephalium: Mostly small with many brown bristles up to 5 cm high and 6,5-8,5 cm in diameter.
Spines: Short, curved, off-white, except in the centre where the new ones are yellow, reddish brown, dark brown to black often bent or even hooked in juvenile specimens.
Central spines: 1-4 per areola, 10-53 mm long mostly straight-projecting:
Radial spines: 7-12 mostly straight. 13-50(60) mm long, the lowermost only a little longer than the others.
Flowers:18-23 mm long, 10-12 mm wide. Pericarpel 6,5-8,5 cm long with white wool and bristles.
Fruit: Berry, club-shaped up to 25 mm long, 9 mm in diameter, red to crimson on the top white or pale pink at the base.
Seeds: 1-1,35 x 1 mm somewhat tuberculate.
Chromosome number: 2n = 44

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