Turbinicarpus flaviflorus

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Turbinicarpus flaviflorus

Turbinicarpus flaviflorus Gerhart Frank & A.B.Lau in Kakteen And. Sukk. 30(1): 6. 1979 sec. Aquino 2021
  • ≡Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus subsp. flaviflorus (Gerhart Frank & A.B.Lau) Glass & R.A.Foster in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 51(3): 123. 1979 syn. sec. Aquino 2021
  • ≡Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus var. flaviflorus (Gerhart Frank & A.B.Lau) Glass & R.A.Foster in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 51: 123. 1979 syn. sec. Aquino 2021
  • ≡Neolloydia schmiedickeana var. flaviflora (Gerhart Frank & A.B.Lau) E.F.Anderson in Bradleya 4: 20. 1986 syn. sec. Aquino 2021
  • ≡Pediocactus schmiedickeanus var. flaviflorus (Gerhart Frank & A.B.Lau) Halda in Acta Mus. Richnov., Sect. Nat., 5: 21. 1998 syn. sec. Aquino 2021
  • ≡Turbinicarpus macrochele subsp. flaviflorus (Gerhart Frank & A.B.Lau) Doweld in Sukkulenty 3: 69. 2000 syn. sec. Aquino 2021
    • Type: México. San Luís Potosí: Santa Rita, s.f., A.B. Lau 1185 (holotype ZSS, isotype MEXU 432549)

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Turbinicarpus flaviflorus, previously a subspecies of T. schmiedickeanus is here raised to species rank sice it was shown to be distant from T. schmiedickeanus and closely related to T. alonsoi. Unlike T. schmiedickeanus, which has depressed-globose stems, T. flaviflorus has short cylindrical stems with a slight broadening in the lower part (Donati & Zanovello, 2004). Mosco (2009) explains that under the epidermis of the spines there are fibers with open lumina and <2 μm thick walls, a characteristic that is not shared with T. schmiedickeanus.A

Bibliography

A. Aquino, D. 2021: Revisions of Epithelantha, Kadenicarpus, Rapicactus, Turbinicarpus – In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 251-270