Taxonomic account

Eriosyce horrida

Eriosyce horrida (Gay) P.C.Guerrero & Helmut Walter

Name accepted in Plants of the World Online. [2-WWW]

SpeciesAccount scope · nomenclature

Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Eriosyce
Ranga: Species
Genus list verification: 11 October 2026 [2-WWW]

Names in the literature

Synonyms and spelling variants linked to the accepted name in WCVP 16, including updates to the genus list. [27-WWW] [2-WWW]

Echinocactus horridus Gay
Echinocactus tuberisulcatus Jacobi
Eriosyce curvispina subsp. tuberisulcata (Jacobi) Katt.
Eriosyce curvispina var. tuberisulcata (Jacobi) Katt.
Hildmannia horrida (Gay) Kreuz. & Buining
Horridocactus horridus (Gay) Backeb.
Horridocactus tuberisulcatus (Jacobi) Y.Itô
Malacocarpus tuberisulcatus (Jacobi) Britton & Rose
Neochilenia odoriflora (F.Ritter) Backeb.
Neoporteria horrida (Gay) D.R.Hunt
Neoporteria horrida var. coliguayensis (F.Ritter) A.E.Hoffm.
Neoporteria horrida var. odoriflora (F.Ritter) A.E.Hoffm.
Neoporteria tuberisulcata (Jacobi) Donald & G.D.Rowley
Pyrrhocactus coliguayensis F.Ritter
Pyrrhocactus horridus (Gay) Backeb.
Pyrrhocactus odoriflorus F.Ritter
Pyrrhocactus tuberisulcatus (Jacobi) A.Berger

Nomenclatural basis

The genus's species list was checked in POWO on 11 October 2026. Authorship and links between older names were compared with WCVP 16, a snapshot from 4 June 2026. [27-WWW] [2-WWW] [2-WWW]

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