Turbinicarpus beguinii var. senilis (Gymnocactus, Neolloydia)

	*Turbinicarpus beguinii var. senilis* (syn: Gymnocactus beguinii var. senilis)	CACTUS ART NURSERY Cultivation and Mail Sale of Cacti and Succulents.

T. beguinii var. senilis
This form (or cultivar) grows relativeley fast up to 18-25 cm tall and has a dense covering of glassy white long curved spines. As plants ages became brown and corky towards the base.

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of the Turbinicarpus mandragora complex (This taxon has lots of synonyms whit several controversial varieties and subspecies):

T. beguinii (T. mandragora ssp. beguinii)
T. beguinii "senilis" (T. mandragora ssp. beguinii “senilis“)
T. beguinii "albiflorus" (T. mandragora ssp. beguinii "albiflorus")
T. booleanus (T. mandragora ssp. booleanus)
T. mandragora (T. mandragora ssp. mandragora)
T. pailanus (T. mandragora ssp. pailanus)
T. subterraneus (Turbinicarpus mandragora ssp. subterraneus)
T. subterraneus var. zaragozae (Turbinicarpus mandragora ssp. zaragozae)

Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Conservation status: Listed in CITES Appendix I

Gymnocactus beguinii var. senilis Y. Ito

Scientific Name: Turbinicarpus beguinii (N. P. Taylor) Mosco et Zanovello 1997
Published in: Bradleya; Yearbook of the British Cactus and Succulent Society 15: 81, 1997

Origin: Coahuila, Mexico ? Rowley (Rep. Pl. Succ. 23: 8, 1972) considers this to be merely a long spined cultivar (Nursery produced ) and is treated as a synonym of T. mandragora ssp. beguinii by Jonas M. Lüthy.

Group: Gymnocactus group (Saueri aggregate)

Synonyms:

Turbinicarpus beguinii ssp. senilis Zachar & Lux
Gymnocactus beguinii var. senilis Y. Ito
Published in: The Cactaceae, 1981:475
Neolloydia smithii v senilis

Flower are broadly funnel-shaped bright magenta .
Length and diameter of the flower 3-5 cm.

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