Dyckia domfelicianensis

Dyckia domfelicianensis is close related to Dyckia hebdingii and
one can´t tell who descended from who. Dyckia domfelicanensis is bigger and never as scaled nor so much silver blue hued as Dyckia hebdingii.
They live close to one another in nature and you can easily cross on foot the distance between them.

We can state, Dyckia domfelicianesis belongs to the same Dyckia complex
as Dyckia hebdingii and Dyckia hebdingii grandis and some more Dyckia sp.
The extension of the Dyckia hebdingii complex is not known yet and it may include some
more brand new to science spiecies.
All this complex lives on a very poor coal mining area of Rio Grande do Sul.
The coal here has a very low quality and another enemy came to
destroy what mining could not achieve: The eucalyptus plantations.
Do not get fooled Dyckias will survive but only in high quality collections.
Even those collections ( when existent) in Public Botanic Gardens that should be the first to guarantee the survival of these gems can not do any good. They change politically every few years and researches and scientists get lost.