Gymnocalycium rauschii
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Gymnocalycium rauschii is a species of plant in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Austrian cactus specialist Walter Rausch .
description
Gymnocalycium rauschii grows individually with dark green to grayish green, flattened spherical shoots and reaches heights of up to 5 centimeters with diameters of 10 to 15 centimeters. There are ten to 14 ribs . The seven to nine straight or slightly curved, yellow thorns turn reddish brown with age. They are 1.2 to 1.7 inches long.
The broad, funnel-shaped, light pink flowers reach a length of 2.5 to 3.5 centimeters and a diameter of 2.3 to 3 centimeters. The egg-shaped fruits are only about 7 millimeters long.
Distribution and systematics
Gymnocalycium rauschii is widespread in Uruguay in the Tacuarembó department .
It was first described in 1990 by Hans and Walter Till .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 325 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 200.
- ↑ Wolfgang Papsch, Joesef Pöschl: Austrians in the world of cacti . Society of Austrian Cactus Friends, Wiener Neustadt 2000, pp. 66–67.
- ^ Succulenta . Volume 69, Number 2, 1990, pp. 27-31.