Lobivia cinnabarina var. walterspielii
Lobivia 3: 178. 1977 [ et: G.D.Rowley - Cact. Succ. J. Gr. Brit. 44: 80. 1982 ]
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Lobivia cinnabarina var. walterspielii
Author
(Boed.) Rausch
Chinese genus
丽花球属
Chinese name
-
Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Habit
is a small cactus with a much flattened usually solitary body (sometime forms small few branched clumps).
Central Spines
None or 1 to 3 stouter.
Flowers
About 4 to 8 cm broad, near the plant apex, red cup-shaped. The flower's tube is covered by hairy lanceolate-acute scales with hairy axils.
Ribs
It has 20 ribs spirally arranged, irregular and oblique, with raised to acute tubercles between which the areoles appear.
Stem
Glossy dark green, spherical broader than high, depressed and unarmed at apex, up to 15 cm in diameter.
Radial Spines
Longer and more porrect than in the standard Echinopsis cinnabarinaSN|9451]]SN|9451]], spreading, acicular, slender, Yellowish turning greyish eventually.
Areoles
Rounded with short whitish felt.