Xerophyte

Description

It is a nice small species reminding of Rebutia heliosaSN|5204]]SN|5204]]. The plants in habitat are solitary or rarely with few basal offsets, but grafted specimens branches profusely.

Tubercles

2 mm wide, 3 mm long, up to 1 mm high.

Flowers

3-4 cm wide, petals spirally arranged in two or three rows. Outer tepals orange-red, Inner tepals yellow with orange-red tips. Rarely pure yellow. Pistil and stamens pale yellow.

Spines

up to 25 pectinated, white, yellowish (rarely brown) with dark bases, arranged adjacent to the body and almost completely covering the epidermis.

Stem

35 (-40) mm wide gradually merging with a tap-root up to 80 mm long. Epidermis green.

Fruits

Oblong white berries.

Areoles

2 mm long, tapering downward, white.