Gymnocalycium quehlianum(F.Haage ex H.Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus

WFO wfo-0000712634 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 quehlianum, photographed by Tomás Carranza Perales
fig. a Tomás Carranza Perales, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 177956288
Gymnocalycium quehlianum, photographed by Tomás Carranza Perales
fig. b Tomás Carranza Perales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176549851
Gymnocalycium quehlianum, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27946626
Gymnocalycium quehlianum, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. d Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23582485
Gymnocalycium quehlianum, photographed by aacocucci
fig. e aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11316268
Gymnocalycium quehlianum, photographed by Guillermo Debandi
fig. f Guillermo Debandi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168212336
Gymnocalycium quehlianum, photographed by aacocucci
fig. g aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11316270

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Gymnocalycium quehlianum is native: Argentina Northeast Argentina Northeast
Native distribution of Gymnocalycium quehlianum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Echinocactus platensis var. quehlianus Speg.
  • Echinocactus quehlianus F.Haage ex H.Quehl
  • Echinocactus stellatus Speg.
  • Echinocactus stenocarpus K.Schum.
  • Gymnocalycium asterium A.Cast.
  • Gymnocalycium asterium var. minimum Pazout
  • Gymnocalycium obductum Piltz
  • Gymnocalycium quehlianum var. albispinum Bozsing ex Backeb.
  • Gymnocalycium quehlianum var. flavispinum Bozsing ex Backeb.
  • Gymnocalycium quehlianum var. rolfianum Schick
  • Gymnocalycium quehlianum var. stellatum (Speg.) Dölz
  • Gymnocalycium quehlianum var. zantnerianum Schick
  • Gymnocalycium stellatum (Speg.) Speg.
  • Gymnocalycium stellatum var. flavispinum Bozsing ex H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium stellatum var. kleinianum Rausch ex H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium stellatum var. minimum (Pazout) R.Strong
  • Gymnocalycium stellatum var. obductum (Piltz) H.Till & W.Till
  • Gymnocalycium stellatum var. zantnerianum (H.Schick) H.Till & W.Till

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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