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Echinocactus damsii K.Schum.
Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. i. 119. 1903
Family: CACTACEAE

= Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii (K.Schum.) G.J.Charles
Cactaceae Syst. Init. 20: 17. 2005 [Nov 2005]

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

Echinocactus damsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Carolina González
The skin colour often varies seasonally from green to coppery brown.

Synonyms:

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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]

Cultivars (1):
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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.


27313 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Gymnocalycium damsii, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
25574 carolina Carolina González
Echinocactus damsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Carolina González

27312 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Gymnocalycium damsii, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
23835 carolina Carolina González
Echinocactus damsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Carolina González

28031 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Echinocactus damsii (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
27317 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. The specimens growing in the shade are dark green and have fewer spines. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger

27318 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Huge colony affected by erosion. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
27323 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. (Gymnocalycium anisitsii subs. damsii) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger

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Gymnocalycium damsii, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil.
by Alexander Arzberger
Gymnocalycium damsii with extreme spination, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
by Alexander Arzberger

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