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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family)Sulcorebutia verticillacantha var. applanata Don. & Krahn
Accepted
Scientific Name:
Rebutia
canigueralii Cardenas
In Cact. & Succ. J. Amer. 36: 26-27, 1964
Distribution: Dept.
Chuquisaca, Prov. Oropeza, on the south-east outskirts of the town of
Sucre, on the Cerro Churuquella, 2800-2900 m (type locality), in
addition, a further population is located approximately over Sucre and
along the road to Poroma.
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES Appendix II.
Etymology: The generic name "Sulcorebutia" is from
the Latin "sulcus", meaning furrow. The specific
name "canigueralii" comes from its discoverer Father
Juan Cañigueral, priest at Rocoleta in Sucre, Bolivia.
The variety epithet "applanata" ( Latin for flattened)
refers to the flattened top of the heads.
Synonyms:
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Desciption:
Slow
growing clustering cactus that may
forms
clumps
of many
heads.
Stem:
Rapidly offsetting from the base,
small, dull grey-green, individual
stems 2,5 cm tall, 3 cm in diameter.
Ribs:
With
raised tubercles
(3-5 mm wide) . In older
plants tubercles are arranged in up to 13(-16)
spiral line
merging in the apex.
Areoles:
Narrow
with short white
felt
5 mm long,
1 mm wide.
Roots:
Conical
multi-branched.
Radial spines: 11 to 14,
fine, bristly, 1,5-3 mm long tight, pectinate,
pointing diagonally and
downward. Whitish with brownish
base partially interlaced.
Central spines:
None or 1 to 2 ± distant and erect,
whitish with darker base.
Flowers: Buds greenish, brownish to reddish, from
the
basal, older areoles, up to 40
mm long and 50 mm wide, odourless to slightly muffin
smelling. More or less
bi-coloured, red, often
more brownish or violet at the tips, throat usually paler red or fading
in orange or yellow, but less frequently uniformly red , light-violet or
even white.
Floral tube
funnel-shaped
yellowish-green or yellowish-red with tan coloured
scales.
Filaments yellowish with reddish bases, style yellowhish, with 5-6
stigma lobes,
Phenology:
Flowers are produced in late
spring and remain open for three or four days.
Fruit: Reddish to
brownish approx 6
mm wide, with brown scales.
Under the lowest scales
usually it is possible to find some fine, white hair.
Seeds: 1.2-1.4 mm long and 1-1.2 mm wide.
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Photo of
conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of
plants belonging to the Lobivia
canigueralli complex
(This
Taxon has lots of synonyms whit
several controversial varieties and subspecies and comprises a multitude
of different forms, but where each form is linked to others by
populations of plants with intermediate characteristics):


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