He travelled extensively through Central and South America, and published a number of books on cacti, including the six-volume 4,000-page Die Cactaceae, 1958-1962, and the Kakteenlexikon first appearing in 1966 and updated posthumously.
Although he collected and described many new species and defined a number of new genera, much of his work was based on faulty assumptions about the evolution of cacti, and too focused on geographic distribution; many of his genera have since been reorganized or abandoned.
The name Turbinicarpus was first used by CurtBackeberg for a subgenus of Strombocactus in 1936, a year later the subgenus was segregated and raised to the rank of genus by CurtBackeberg and Franz Buxbaum.
It wasn't until 1948 that the name Turbinicarpus was used to describe a new species by CurtBackeberg and H.J. Jacobson, when they described Turbinicarpus klinkerianus.
Backeberg, amongst others, did not accept that these plants were related to Toumeya, so he continued using his own genus when describing T.
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