Description of T. saueri ssp. gonzalezii

T. saueri ssp. gonzalezzi [Click the image for more pictures]
Photo © M. González Botello
Pavlícek and Zatloukal, Kaktusy 41(1): 3-9, 2005

Translated from the Latin:
Body flattened spherical, for the most part somewhat standing above the soil surface, merely in age spherical, to 5 cm high, ca. 6 cm thick. Roots numerous, thread-like, growing from the moderately thick base. The upper surface of the body with tubercles small covered with; tubercles arranged in 13 spirals, short conical, base inconspicuous six-angled; areole terminal, round, 2-3 mm Ø, white-greyish wool. Central spine solitary, well differentiated from the radial spines, young central spines glassy-white, afterwards becoming grey, darker at the tip, ca. 10 mm long, curved towards the apex; radial spines 12-18, thinner and shorter, glassy-white, regularly arranged, 4-10 mm long.

Flower funnel-shaped, ca. 30 mm long and 40 (-50) mm wide, the throat pink becoming reddish; inner perianth segments lanceolate, 25 mm long and 4 mm wide, white, streaked, streaks violet, 1-2 mm wide, gradually becoming narrower towards the tip; external perianth segments white, dark-green widely streaked; receptacle becoming green, a tube ca. 10 mm long, becoming green, lacking scales. Style pink, 1 mm long; stigma 5-6-lobed, white, stamens standing above by 3 mm; stamens numerous, filaments red, anthers yellow.

Fruit globular to broadly ovate, 6-8 mm long, drying out (in the dried state papery), seed number 70-140. Seed ca. 1 x 0.7 mm large, testa verruculose, black.

Type: Mexico, Tamaulipas, ca. 25 km south-east from the town of Linares; altitude ca 300 m s. m., 15. June 2002, by Miguel Angel González Botello. Holotypus in preserved in the herbarium CFNL (Facultad de Ciencias Forstales de Nuevo León, UANL, Mexico).

Notes

This taxa was previously known as T. sp. "Linares".

Related taxa

Turbinicarpus saueri ssp. gonzalezii is part of the saueri aggregate of taxa, together with the following:

References

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