Xerophyte

Seeds

Oblong, about 1 mm long, testa glossy black, hilum white.

Roots

Fibrous.

Habitat

It is solitary or clumping and in age can grow clumps 10-15 cm wide. Each head is surrounded by a complete ring of pink-violet flowers produced from around the base of the plant. It begins to offset in about its third or fourth year, eventually making a moderately tight clump, with the individual stems standing out a little on their own.

Tubercles

Low, flat conical in two downward spirals, in ratio 8

Flowers

It produces a larger crop of funnel-shaped pink-violet of flowers, about 30 mm long and 35 mm wide, purplish pink, floral tube slender funnel-shaped, outside as well as pericarpel covered with brownish-red, naked scales. Perianth segments lanceolate, fairly uniformly purple-pink with short dark tips. Filaments whitish, anthers yellowish.Style free to base pink with 4-5 white, spreading stigma lobes slightly protruding the anthers.

Blooming Season

It is usually one of the earliest rebutias to flower in spring.

Spines

Approximately 25, radiating to to upright, hardly distinguishable as radials and central, variable, usually few thin, short bristle-like, flexible, translucent and tiny, as with the well- known Rebutia minusculaSN|15395]]SN|15391]] (or fairly long, flexible, and more prolific, as seen on Rebutia senilisSN|15395]]SN|15395]]) whitish, usually with dark tips, 3-15 mm long.in number, 5-10 mm long, pure white.

Stem

Squat, depressed globose (or somewhat spherical to slightly elongated in cultivation), deep green, 4-6(-7) cm in diameter and 4-6(-10) cm tall.

Fruits

Spherical, yellowish red or brownish, to 5 mm in diameter.

Areoles

Circular, about 1 mm wide, brownish white tomentose.