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Turbinicarpus gielsdorfianus

Turbinicarpus gielsdorfianus
Photo: Kaktus855, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Succulent
Native range
NE. Mexico (to Jalisco)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

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Turbinicarpus gielsdorfianus is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae.

It is a succulent cactus subshrub endemic to northeastern Mexico. It was discovered near Ciudad del Maíz in San Luis Potosí state, in dry mattoral shrubland on a rocky calcareous slope. It is part of an edaphic plant community called matorral rosetófilo which grows on calcareous substrates.

Other Turbinicarpus plants

Turbinicarpus alonsoi · Turbinicarpus hoferi · Turbinicarpus laui · Turbinicarpus lophophoroides · Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus · Turbinicarpus saueri · Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus · Turbinicarpus swobodae · Turbinicarpus valdezianus · Turbinicarpus viereckii · Top cactus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Turbinicarpus gielsdorfianus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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