Gymnocalycium pugionacanthumBackeb. ex H.Till

WFO wfo-0000712631 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum, photographed by Guillermo Debandi
fig. a Guillermo Debandi, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-11-03 / obs. 5482069
Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. b Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23527840
Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. c Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23581688
Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. d Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23527859

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Gymnocalycium catamarcense H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium catamarcense f. belense H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium catamarcense f. ensispinum H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium catamarcense f. montanum H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum var. stejskalii Milt
  • Gymnocalycium schmidianum subsp. asperum Mereg. & Kulhánek

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.