Frailea chrysacantha

Foto: Jan Jaap de Morree †

Original Publication
V. Hrabé, Kaktusy (Brno), 65 (Listopad-Prosinec): 131, 1968

Original Description
Globosa, simplex, cca 25 mm diametro, apex impressus, totus aculeis tectus. Epidermis cano-viridis. Radix fusiformis. Costae 16-18, tuberculis constructae, valde humiles, rectae; areolae flavo-fusce tomentosae, aculeis subferrugineis, lateralibus 12-17, rectis, 3-4 mm longis, subadligantibus, radialibus; aculeis centralibus 4-6, cca 5mm longis, rectis a marginalibus haud differentibus. Flores 20-35 mm longi et lati, foliis perigonii internis luteis, lanceolatis; exter-nis lanceolatis, luteis, viride acuminatis; flores basi squamis viridibus albide lanatis tecti atque setis 20 mm longis obscure ferrugineis muniti. Stigma lutea, 7-8 fissa. Stamina antheris luteiscentibus, filamentis luteis.
Fructus cca 5 mm latus, viridis, pallidissime fusca lanatus et setis obscure ferrugineis, 10-25 mm longis protectus. Setae a 5-6 in fasciculis ex axilla squammarum viridum rubro acuminatarum evadunt. Semina globosa, 1,8-2 mm, atrofusca, saepe kleistogamica.
Patria: ignota.
Holotypus in collectione V. Hrabe, Brno.

Distribution

References in Literature
▪ Frailea chrysacantha - Hrabe n sp. (Syn.: Frailea chrysacantha Fric nom. nud.) Vit Hrabe, Brno, C.S.S.R. Succulenta (Netherlands) 47(9): 140-142, 1968

Seedlists
▪ Cactussen en Verplanten zaadlijst 1984
▪ Succulenta Brabant (Belgium) 1995
▪ Succulenta Brabant (Belgium) 1997

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