the genus rebutia 1895—1981 - Free

REBUTIA MINUSCULA
Rebutia minuscula K. Sch.: Monats. f. Kakt. (1895) 5, 102
Synonyms Echinopsis minuscula Web.
Echinocactus minuscula Web.
Rebutia minuscula v. multiflora Frič nomen nudum
Rebutia petersonii Hort. nomen nudum
Classification Section IV Rebutia Subsection I Rebutiae
Body up to 50mm. in diameter and becoming strongly caespitose with
age soon forming large clumps 150mm. or more in diameter.
Epidermis deep green.
Areoles circular with sparse white wool.
Spines numerous, c. 40, undifferentiated into radials and centrals and
arranged like needles on a pin cushion. Spines up to 5mm. long,
whitish, sometimes becoming brownish at the base.
Flowers large, up to 40mm. long and 35mm. in diameter, bright red. 6 lobed
stigma, style pinkish, filaments golden yellow.
Fruit 6mm. in diameter, orange-red.
Seeds black, shining.
Type locality Tucuman, N. Argentina. Map 3, No. 61.
Notes One of the easiest and most widely grown of all species of Cacti. It
can be flowered when only 1 year old from seed. It was the first
species of Rebutia to be described.
There is a form in cultivation R. minuscula f. grandiflora which has a
very elongated flower tube making the flower 70mm. long.
Consult the section on flowers and floral structure.
REBUTIA MUSCULA
Rebutia muscula Ritter & Thiele: Taxon (1963) 12,29
Synonyms Aylostera muscula (Ritter & Thiele) Backbg.
Rebutia nivosa Ritter nomen nudum
Rebutia muscula v. nivosa Knize comb. nud.
Classification Section I Aylostera
Body up to 5cm. in diameter becoming caespitose with age, individual
heads becoming elongated.
Areoles circular with white wool.
Spines pure white, soft bristle like, centrals indistinguishable from the
radials. 6mm. long, 50-55 in number.
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