Xerophyte

Habit

It is a slow growing solitary cactus occasionally offsetting from the base to form clumps of many heads.

Central Spines

None.

Description

Sulcorebutia frankianaSN|15093]]SN|15093]] (often listed as Weingartia frankianaSN|5181]]SN|5181]]) is one of the several forms of the very variable Rebutia canigueralii which form a complex of related taxon. The “frankiana” distinguish for the small-bodies with fox-brown spines and pink to magenta flowers.

Phenology

Flowers are produced in late spring and remain open for three or four days.

Roots

Conical.

Flowers

About 4 cm in diameter, from the basal part of the stem, usually pink to dark-magenta or dark-red.

Ribs

With raised tubercles. In older plants tubercles are arranged in up to 13 spiral line merging in the apex.

Stem

Solitary or offsetting from the base, small, dark-green, green to dark purple A characteristic of this species is that the offsets develop roots while still attached to the mother. Individual stems 2-4 cm tall, 3-5(-6) cm in diameter.

Radial Spines

10-18 fine, bristly, tight, pectinate, pointing diagonally and downward, brown, fox-brown or reddish. Sometime interlaced.

Areoles

Narrow with short white felt.