Gymnocalycium stenopleurum

Gymnocalycium stenopleurum F.Ritter (1979)

🌵 Author(s)	Friedrich Ritter
🌵 Published in	Kakteen Südamerika 1: 265 (1979)

Etymology

Greek stenos ‘narrow’ + Greek pleuron ‘rib’. For the “extremely thin” ribs (Ritter). The name contrasts with that of Gymnocalycium eurypleurum (Greek eurys ‘wide, broad’), published in the same work.