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Turbinicarpus karainzianus "minimus"
 

Description: Similar to Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele ssp. krainzianus, but smaller, with stem elongated up to 4cm high, 8-12mm in diameter, deep napiform root. This taxa seems to be fairly variable in body diameter. Cultivated specimens also generally have a larger diameter than that shown in the description.
Flowers are the same as in the type species (krainzianus): diurnal, yellow cream or greenish cream, in summer, up to 2 cm. long. Fruit is spherical, 3-5 mm long, with remnants of dried flower.

Remarks: this species is one of those turbinicarpus which pass a purely radial-spined  youth stage in which they are already floriferous. Most of the  plants after several years develop the long curled central spines, giving the plant its fuzzy appearance.

Young plants (3 years old) with juvenile spines.
 

The transition from pure radial juvenile spines to the long curly centrals of adulthood.
 

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele:

• T. pseudomacrochele

• T. pseudomacrochele var. lausseri

• T. pseudomacrochele ssp. krainzianus var. minimus

• T. pseudomacrochele ssp. krainzianus var. minimus f. cristata

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Scientific name: Turbinicarpus krainzianus ssp. minimus (Gerhart Frank) Lüthy & A.Hofer 2000

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix I
 

Synonyms:

• Turbinicarpus krainzianus (Gerhart Frank) Backeberg 1961
• Turbinicarpus krainzianus fa. minima Frank 1989
• Turbinicarpus krainzianus forma minimus Gerhart Frank
• Turbinicarpus krainzianus v. minimus (Gerhart Frank) Diers
• Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele v. krainzianus Glass & Foster
  In: "A revision of the genus Turbinicarpus"  in "The cactus & succulent Journal" 1977
• Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele ssp. krainzianus Glass 1998
• Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele v. krainziana fa. minima
• Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele ssp. minimus
   

Flower is diurnal, and yellow, cream, or greenish cream
 

Roots are tuberose

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