Rebutia

Rebutia
Rebutia minuscula var. wessneriana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Trichocereeae
Genus: Rebutia
K.Schum.

Rebutia is a genus in the family Cactaceae, native to Bolivia and Argentina. They are generally small, colorful cacti, globular in form, which freely produce flowers that are relatively large in relation to the body. They have no distinctive ribs, but do have regularly arranged small tubercles. They are considered fairly easy to grow and they may produce large quantities of seeds that germinate freely around the parent plant.

The limits of the genus are currently uncertain – in particular whether or not it includes species formerly or currently placed in the genera Aylostera, Cintia, Sulcorebutia and Weingartia. The number of species included varies widely from source to source. A very large number of plants that have been treated in cultivation as species of Rebutia are now generally regarded as varieties, forms or synonyms of a much smaller number of species.

Systematics

The genus was designated in 1895 by Karl Moritz Schumann[1] and named after Pierre Rebut (1828–1898), a French cactus nurseryman. The type species is R. minuscula, which has been in cultivation since 1887.[2]

Limits of the genus

There has been considerable debate about the extent of the genus. In the middle of the twentieth century there was a tendency to separate groups of plants within Rebutia as new genera, e.g. Mediolobivia, whereas towards the end of the century the reverse tendency predominated, with genera previously regarded as separate, such as Weingartia, being subsumed within Rebutia. At the beginning of the twenty-first century there was a broad consensus, as reflected in Kew's list of Vascular Plant Families and Genera, that the following genera should be regarded as synonyms of Rebutia:<ref =>"List of genera in family Cactaceae", Vascular Plant Families and Genera, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2013-03-10 </ref>

(The generic names Bridgesia, Spegazzinia, Echinorebutia, Eurebutia, Mediorebutia, Neogymnantha and Setirebutia are invalid, the first two because they are homonyms of Bridgesia Bert. ex Cambess. and Spegazzinia Saccardo respectively, the remainder for lack of any valid publication. Some of these are nevertheless valid names for subdivisions of the genus.)

The history of the taxonomic treatment of the genera Rebutia, Aylostera, Weingartia, Sulcorebutia and Cintia is summarized below.[3]

K. Schumann Britton & Rose Spegazzini A. V. Frič
895 1896 - 1921 1922 1923 1932 - 1938
Rebutia
genus novum 		Echinocactus
Echinopsis 		Rebutia
renovation 		Rebutia
Rebutia
Rebutia Rebutia Aylostera
genus novum 		Digitorebutia, Cylindrorebutia,
Echinorebutia, Setirebutia,
Hymenorebutia, Scopaerebutia
C. Backeberg Donald ICSG Anderson Rowley Mosti & Papini[3]
1966 1975 2001 2009 2011
Rebutia K. Schum. Rebutia
sectio Rebutia 		Rebutia Rebutia
subg. Rebutia 		Rebutia
Aylostera Speg. Rebutia
sectio Aylostera 		Rebutia Aylostera
subg. Aylostera 		Aylostera
subg. Aylostera
Mediolobivia Backeb. Rebutia
sectio Setirebutia,
Digitorebutia, Cylindrorebutia 		Rebutia Aylostera
subg. Mediolobivia 		Aylostera
subg. Mediolobivia
Weingartia Werderm.
syn.Spegazzinia Backeb. 		Weingartia Rebutia Rebutia
subg. Weingartia 		Weingartia
Sulcorebutia Backeb. Sulcorebutia Rebutia Rebutia
subg. Sulcorebutia 		Weingartia
incl. Cintia

The variation in the treatment of the genus is illustrated by the difference between Mosti et al., who in 2011 treated Aylostera and Weingartia (including Cintia and Sulcorebutia) as distinct from Rebutia,[3] and the Plant List, which as of March 2013 separated Cintia, Sulcorebutia and Weingartia from Rebutia, but merged Aylostera.[4]

Species

The number of species is similarly debatable, because of disagreement both over what constitutes the genus and what constitutes a species. A very large number of plants that have circulated as species of Rebutia are now generally regarded as varieties, forms or synonyms of others.[5] E. F. Anderson recognised forty-one species in 2001.[6] As of March 2013, the Plant List accepted only 12 species, along with a much larger number of synonyms and unresolved names:[7]

Phylogeny

Recent research has indicated that the genus Rebutia as currently defined is polyphyletic. Sulcorebutia and Weingartia were kept as separate genera in the study; a summary cladogram for those species studied is shown below.[8]


Rebutia I (R. pseudodeminuta, R. fiebrigii, R. deminuta, R. pygmaea, R. steinmannii and R. einsteinii)

Other genera

Browningia hertlingiana


Browningia candelaris

Rebutia II (R. minuscula and R. padcayensis)

Sulcorebutia, Weingartia and Cintia





Species formerly classified as Weingartia, Sulcorebutia and Cintia show a close relationship to each other and to species of Rebutia with naked pericarpels (Rebutia II), including the type species R. minuscula. The larger group of species of Rebutia studied, those with hairy or bristly pericarpels, form a separate, more distantly related clade (Rebutia I). It is suggested that these be excluded from the genus.[8]

Rebutia II

Rebutia I - Aylostera, Mediolobivia

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde, 5: 102, 1895
  2. ↑ N. L. Britton, J. N. Rose, The Cactaceae, Washington, 1920, vol.III, p.45.
  3. 1 2 3 Mosti, Stefano; Bandara, Nadeesha Lewke & Papini, Alessio (2011), "Further insights and new combinations in Aylostera (Cactaceae) based on molecular and morphological data", Pakistan Journal of Botany, 43 (6): 2769–2785, retrieved 2013-03-19
  4. ↑ "Search results for Aylostera, Cintia, Sulcorebutia and Weingartia", The Plant List External link in |work= (help);
  5. ↑ Cf. the list of approximately two hundred names under Rebutia (not to mention those given under other genera) provided in B. Fearn and L. Pearcy, The Genus Rebutia, 1895-1981, Matlock: Abbey Brook, 1981, pp.60-71.
  6. ↑ Edward F. Anderson, The Cactus Family, Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2001, pp.599-611.
  7. ↑ "Search results for Rebutia", The Plant List, retrieved 2013-03-19 External link in |work= (help)
  8. 1 2 Ritz, Christiane M.; Martins, Ludwig; Mecklenburg, Rainer; Goremykin, Vadim & Hellwig, Frank H. (2007), "The molecular phylogeny of Rebutia (Cactaceae) and its allies demonstrates the influence of paleogeography on the evolution of South American mountain cacti", American Journal of Botany, 94: 1321–1332, doi:10.3732/ajb.94.8.1321. Summary cladogram based on Fig. 2.
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