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Gymnocalycium capillense, Chacabuco, San Luis, Argentina (c) cactusauria, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2015-12-07

Gymnocalycium capillense (Schick) Hosseus

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 38 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Gymnocalycium capillense is a species of Gymnocalycium cactus from Argentina.

Text from Wikipedia, “Gymnocalycium capillense”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Gymnocalycium

Gymnocalycium, commonly called chin cactus, is a genus of about 70 South American species of cactus. The genus name Gymnocalycium refers to the flower buds bearing no hair or spines. In a 2023 classification of the tribe Cereeae, it was placed as the only genus in the subtribe Gymnocalyciinae, having formerly been placed in the subtribe Rebutiinae.

Text from Wikipedia, “Gymnocalycium”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(Schick) Hosseus
Native to
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest
Wild records
1 in range· 1 open

Also known as Echinocactus capillensis Schick; Gymnocalycium capillensis (Schick) Hosseus.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Gymnocalycium, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1 georeferenced record inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) cactusauria, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Holger Braun, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Andres Cavallo, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Carlos Martorell, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Other Gymnocalycium 63 in the reference

Gymnocalycium affine Cactaceae Gymnocalycium alboareolatum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium alenae Cactaceae Gymnocalycium amerhauseri Cactaceae Gymnocalycium andreae Cactaceae Gymnocalycium anisitsii Cactaceae Gymnocalycium baldianum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium basiatrum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium bayrianum Cactaceae
Gymnocalycium berchtii Cactaceae Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum Cactaceae Gymnocalycium bruchii Cactaceae all 64 ›

History & registers

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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
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