Sclerocactus brevihamatus(Engelm.) D.R.Hunt

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WFO wfo-0001289781 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. a Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-11-08 / obs. 104187301
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64171607
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. c Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63328204
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. d Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39602732
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Clifton Ladd, C.W.B.
fig. e Clifton Ladd, C.W.B., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32068098
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63973419
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Karla M. Benítez
fig. g Karla M. Benítez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104225038
Sclerocactus brevihamatus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. h Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98798091

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Sclerocactus brevihamatus is native: Mexico Northeast, Texas Mexico NortheastTexas
Native distribution of Sclerocactus brevihamatus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Northeast MXE NORTHERN AMERICA
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ancistrocactus brevihamatus (Engelm.) Britton & Rose
  • Ancistrocactus brevihamatus var. pallidus A.D.Zimmerman ex A.M.Powell
  • Ancistrocactus scheeri f. brevihamatus (Engelm.) Krainz
  • Ancistrocactus scheeri subsp. tobuschii (W.T.Marshall) Doweld
  • Ancistrocactus tobuschii (W.T.Marshall) Backeb.
  • Echinocactus brevihamatus Engelm.
  • Echinocactus scheeri var. brevihamatus (Engelm.) K.Schum.
  • Ferocactus tobuschii (W.T.Marshall) N.P.Taylor
  • Mammillaria tobuschii W.T.Marshall
  • Pediocactus brevihamatus (Engelm.) Halda
  • Pediocactus brevihamatus subsp. tobuschii (W.T.Marshall) Halda
  • Sclerocactus scheeri subsp. brevihamatus (Engelm.) Lüthy

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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