Melocactus latispinus and Echinocactus latispinus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

These three are the only species of Melocactus that have become known in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

The most prominent distinctive characters of Melocactus reside in the cap or cluster of spines, wool, and flowers on the summit of the stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Melocactus, a moist tropical house is provided, and in April the plants are freely watered at the root, and syringed overhead both morning and afternoon on all bright days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Then take off a slice from the base of the Melocactus, also paring off about 1 in. of the epidermis all round; place the two together, and bind on firmly with strong worsted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Restricted range species include several cacti, including Armathocereus humilis and Melocactus spp., the endemic tree Pithecellobium bogotense, and the endangered tropical rattle snake Crotalus durissus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magdalena Valley dry forests] Reference

Of the cactus, we can mention Opuntia dillenii (tuna) and O. militaris, Harrisia eriofora (pitahaya), H. taetra (jijira), Pilosocereus robinii (miramar), Dendrocereus nudiflorus (aguacate cimarrón), Agave spp. (maguey), Melocactus spp. (erizos) and Leptocereus spp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban cactus scrub] Reference

Vegetation consists primarily of bayahonda (Prosopis juliflora), cambrón (Acacia macracantha), guayacán (Guaiacum officinale), almácigo (Bursera simarouba), baitoa (Phyllostylon brasiliensis), and spiny shrubs (cactáceas) such as the guazábara (Cylindropuntia caribaea), cayucos (Pilosocereus polygonus), melón espinoso (Melocactus lemairei), alpargata (Opuntia moniliformes) and bombillito (Neomammillaria prolifera).    From Wordnik.com.  [Enriquillo wetlands] Reference

This woodland is only 3-4 meters tall, and the thorny trees are interspersed with cacti (Cephalocereus lanuginosus, Melocactus sp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub] Reference

Melocactus, all the kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Melocactus depressus (Melocactus violaceus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Melocactus spp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magdalena Valley dry forests] Reference

Some endemisms of this ecoregion that bear mentioning are Pilosocereus brooksianus, Leptocereus maxonii, L. sylvestris, L. santamarinae, L. arboreus, Opuntia macracantha, Opuntia dillenii, Melocactus matanzanus M. holguinensis, M. acunae, Escobaria cubensis, Agave albescens, A. acicularis and A. grisea, some of them seriously at risk of extinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban cactus scrub] Reference

Distinctive and endemic species include: plants, Godmania dardanoi, Cordia globosa, Billbergia fosteriana, Cereus jamacaru, Melocactus oreas, Pilosocereus gounellei, Copernicia prunifera, and Ziziphus joazeir; birds, Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), Spix macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), and Moustached Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes falcirostris); mammals, a spiny rat (Proechimys yonenagae); and several lizards, Tropidurus amathites, Tropidurus divaricatus, and Tropidurus cocorobensis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caatinga] Reference