Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose
date: label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1915
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 84 - Brazil Northeast
label: Collector
content: L. Zehntner
notes: label: Notes
content: No type designated in protologue: "The material upon which this species is based was obtained from Dr. Leo Zehntner, who procured it at Sentocé, Bahia, Brazil. A box of living material, fruit, seeds, and several photographs of flowering plants were contributed by him."
label: Notes
content: See USNH 762952 for supplementary material. USNH 762951 is mounted with material in packet possibly (re)moved from USNH 762952, which is annotated "type" and mounted with photographs but found in main herbarium without any specimen Feb. 2011 although something (as well as barcode) has clearly been forcibly removed from it; not inventoried but now placed in same folder with USNH 762951.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bahia, Brazil, South America - Neotropics
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content: Botany
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
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content: Type Register
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 00115593
label: Other Numbers
content: fiche number : 0578/D04
label: USNM Number
content: 762951
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Britton, N. L., Rose, J. N. 1922.
label: Type Status
content: Type collection
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Dicotyledonae Caryophyllales Cactaceae Cactoideae