As classified in WFO snapshot
June 2024
latest classification for this taxon
species
Melocactus patens
Suringar
This species name was first published in in Verslagen Meded. Afd. Natuurk. Kon. Akad. Wetensch., ser. 3, 2: 190. 1886.
This species name has been reclassified since this snapshot. Its current preferred usage is a synonym .