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Echinocactus anisitsii K.Schum.
Bluh. Kakteen 1: pl. 4. 1900
Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Gymnocalycium anisitsii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 159, fig. 168. 1922 Britton & Rose

Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Gymnocalycium anisitsii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 159, fig. 168. 1922
Synonymy: 21 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. holdii Amerh.
Gymnocalycium 16(3): 531 (-532; Abb. 23-37). 2003 [Aug 2003]

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. multiproliferum (P.J.Braun) P.J.Braun & Esteves
Succulenta (Netherlands) 74(3): 131 (1995)
Synonymy: 2 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. volkeri Amerh.
Gymnocalycium 17(1): 559 (-560; abb. 35-38). 2004 [Feb 2004]

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Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Gymnocalycium anisitsii group

Gymnocalycium anisitsii is a very polymorphic species with a large range of variability. Two subspecies are recognized, the nominate form and subsp. multiproliferum. There seems to be very little justification for vars. centrispinum, rotundulum, torulosum and tucavocense. Gymnocalycium griseopallidum from the salt-pan desert area on the Bolivia-Paraguay borders may well be another variety or local form which has become adapted to the peculiar local conditions of that region.


13102 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
20140 julio Julio C. García
Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Julio C. García

13103 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
13104 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

13106 cactus-art Cactus Art
Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Cactus Art
13105 cactus-art Cactus Art
Echinocactus anisitsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Cactus Art

28021 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Habit at the type locality. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
28022 alexander Alexander Arzberger
In habitat. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger

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