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Endangered
CITES App. II
Primary
Gymnocalycium sutterianum
Revista Centro Estud. Farm. 2, no. 6: reprint pp. 16, 22. 1926 Berger, Kakteen, 341. 1929; cf.Gray Herb. Card Cat., Issue 130.
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Gymnocalycium sutterianum
Author
(Schick) Hosseus
Chinese genus
裸萼球属
Chinese name
-
Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Description
It has a very flattened body and a strong tuberose root apparatus.
Note
This species is closely related to Gymnocalycium sigelianumSN|17862]]SN|17862]] (which has paler flowers and some differences in the number and the colour of spines)
Flowers
pinkish-white with a contrasting red coloured middle