Dyckia encholirioides is the easternmost South Brazilian one. It is a sand dweller and grows from Santa Catarina to South in São Paulo littoral. It grows listening to the come and going of the Atlantic waves. This one was found being tidal trawler. A tempest had disrupted the sand cliff it was growing on. I think this is a centennial old plant. flowers are suphurous yellow.
The variety spinosissima is found only on a tiny part of the North Santa Catarina littoral and it bears many more spines than the type species form which also grows close by, some mare meters from it.
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