Gymnocalycium capillense

Gymnocalycium capillense is a species of Gymnocalycium cactus from Argentina.

Description

Gymnocalycium capillense has a dull blue-green, broad-spherical plant body that reaches heights and diameters of up to 8 centimeters and produces numerous children. It has up to 13, more or less flat ribs that have low chin-like projections between the depressed areoles. The approximately 5 marginal spines are yellowish to white and up to 1.2 centimeters long.
The delicate pink-white flowers are up to 7 centimeters long and up to 6 centimeters in diameter. The club-shaped fruits have a bluish frost.

Distribution

Gymnocalycium capillense is widespread in the Argentine province of Córdoba and grows at altitudes of 500 to 1500 meters.

Taxonomy

The first description as Echinocactus capillensis was published in 1923 by Carl Schick. The specific epithet capillense refers to the occurrence of the species near Capilla del Monte. Carl Curt Hosseus placed the species in the genus Gymnocalycium in 1926.