Gymnocalycium fischeri
Gymnocalycium fischeri subsp. suyuquense
Gymnocalycium fischeri is a species in the genus Gymnocalycium from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet honors the Czech cacti collectors Ladislav Fischer.
Description
Gymnocalycium fischeri grows individually with blue gray green, flat spherical impulses, ( rarely to 15 cm ) reach for diameters 8 to 10 centimeters stature heights of up to 6 inches. The eight to twelve straight fins are deeply notched and transverse tubercles. The first dirty white felted areoles are bald later. The single central spine, rarely are present up to four, is only formed on older plants. The five to seven ( rarely up to nine ) radiating, pfriemlichen, rigid spines are gray-brown. At their base they are black and brown horn-colored light at the top. The spines have a length from 1.2 to 2.2 centimeters.
The funnel-shaped, variable off-white to pale pink flowers have a darker pink throat. They are up to 8 inches long and have a diameter of 7 centimeters. The blue- green fruits are fusiform to clavate, reaching a length of 2.5 to 3.8 centimeters. They tear vertically.
Distribution and systematics
Gymnocalycium fischeri is common in the Argentine province of San Luis in the west to the south-east of the foothills of the Sierra de San Luis in altitudes up to 1300 meters.
The first description was in 2002 by Josef Jakob Halda, Petr Kupčák, Emil Lukasik and Jaromír Sladkovský.