The author elaborates on the treatment of the genus Maihueniopsis Spegazzini in The New Cactus Lexicon, discusses the identity of M. minuta (Backeberg) Ritter and publishes the northern form of M. glomerata (Haworth) Kiesling as a new subspecies: M. glomerata subsp. hypogaea (Werdermann) G. Charles. An unidentified species from the Sierra Famatina, Prov. La Rioja, Argentina is illustrated and discussed. Photographs of documented plants in habitat and cultivation, together with distribution maps are provided.
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