Xerophyte

Central Spines

Usually not present, but occasionally there is one, similar to the radials.

Description

Rebutia schatzlianaSN|12886]]SN|12895]] (Subgenus Aylostera) is a form of Rebutia albopectinataSN|12895]]SN|12886]], but not sufficiently differentiated and considered merely a local variant of the latter (if not the same). It is a slow growing species, solitary or slowly clustering in cultivation

Note

The few specimens occasionally found in cultivation, even in spite of diligent transfer of the pollen amongst them, fail to set seeds. May be, all them are cuttings of the only clone available in cultivation.

Flowers

Orange, 3 cm long, 2.5 cm across. Outer tepals pink with brown midstripe. Inner tepals shining orange, with pinkish-white throat. Stigma greenish.

Ribs

21.

Stem

Globose to short-cylindrical, to 1.5 cm wide, green.

Radial Spines

17-19, pectinate, lying flat to the body, 1 to 2mm long, glassy white to honey yellow, slightly pubescent.

Areoles

Elongating with short brown wool.