Origin and Habitat: Higher Andes of Southern Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Potosi and Santa Cruz) and Northern Argentina
Altitude: 2000 to 4000 metres of altitude.
Habitat and Ecology: The species occurs in pre-Puna and on rocky lands within shrubby vegetation in seasonally dry inter-Andean valleys. There are no major threats other than subsistence farming, but seedlings establish quite well after a disturbance.

• Echinopsis cinnabarina (Hook.) Labour.
• Cinnabarinea cinnabarina (Hook.) F.Ritter
• Echinocactus cinnabarinus Hook.
• Echinocereus cinnabarinus (Hook.) K.Schum.
• Lobivia cinnabarina (Hook.) Britton & Rose

• Echinopsis cinnabarina (Hook.) Labour.
• Cinnabarinea cinnabarina (Hook.) F.Ritter
• Echinocactus cinnabarinus Hook.
• Echinocereus cinnabarinus (Hook.) K.Schum.
• Lobivia cinnabarina (Hook.) Britton & Rose
• Cinnabarinea pseudocinnabarina var. microthelis F.Ritter
• Echinopsis cinnabarina var. acanthoplegma (Backeb.) G.D.Rowley
• Cinnabarinea acanthoplegma (Backeb.) F.Ritter
• Lobivia acanthoplegma (Backeb.) Backeb.
• Lobivia cinnabarina subs. acanthoplegma (Backeb.) Rausch
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. acanthoplegma (Backeb.) Rausch
• Pseudolobivia acanthoplegma Backeb.
• Echinopsis cinnabarina var. cheroniana
• Echinopsis cinnabarina var. prestoniana (Cárdenas) E.F.Anderson
• Cinnabarinea prestoana (Cárdenas) F.Ritter
• Lobivia cinnabarina subs. prestoana (Cárdenas) Rausch in Rausch
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. prestoana (Cárdenas) Rausch
• Lobivia prestoana Cárdenas
• Echinopsis cinnabarina var. scheeriana Rud.Mey.
• Echinopsis cinnabarina var. spinosior Rümpler
• Echinopsis cinnabarina subs. taratensis (Cárdenas) G.D.Rowley
• Lobivia acanthoplegma f. taratensis (Cárdenas) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia cinnabarina subs. taratensis (Cárdenas) G.D.Rowley
• Lobivia taratensis Cárdenas
• Echinopsis cinnabarina f. variegata hort.
• Lobivia cinnabarina f. variegata
• Echinopsis oligotricha (Cárdenas) M.Lowry
• Cinnabarinea oligotricha (Cárdenas) F.Ritter
• Lobivia acanthoplegma var. oligotricha (Cárdenas) Gertel & Wahl
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. oligotricha (Cárdenas) Rausch in Rausch
• Lobivia cinnabarina subvar. oligotricha (Cárdenas) Rausch
• Lobivia oligotricha Cárdenas
• Lobivia acanthoplegma var. patula Rausch
• Lobivia acanthoplegma f. pilosa Rausch
• Lobivia acanthoplegma var. roseiflora Rausch
• Lobivia cinnabarina f. charcasina (Cárdenas) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia charcasina Cárdenas
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. draxleriana (Rausch) Rausch
• Lobivia draxleriana Rausch
• Lobivia prestoana var. draxleriana (Rausch) Šída
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. neocinnabarina (Backeb.) Rausch
• Cinnabarinea neocinnabarina (Backeb.) F.Ritter
• Lobivia acanthoplegma f. neocinnabarina (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia neocinnabarina Backeb.
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. walterspielii (Boed.) Rausch
• Cinnabarinea walterspielii (Boed.) F.Ritter
• Lobivia cinnabarina subvar. walterspielii (Boed.) Rausch
• Lobivia rossii var. walterspielii (Boed.) Backeb.
• Lobivia walterspielii Boed.
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. zudanensis (Cárdenas) Rausch ex G.D.Rowley
• Cinnabarinea zudanensis (Cárdenas) F.Ritter
• Lobivia cinnabarina subvar. zudanensis (Cárdenas) Rausch
• Lobivia zudanensis Cárdenas
• Lobivia pseudocinnabarina Backeb.
• Cinnabarinea pseudocinnabarina (Backeb.) F.Ritter
• Lobivia acanthoplegma f. pseudocinnabarina (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia pseudocinnabarina Backeb.
• Lobivia taratensis var. leucosiphus Cárdenas
• Cinnabarinea acanthoplegma var. leucosiphus (Cárdenas) F.Ritter
• Lobivia cinnabarina var. leucosyphus
• Lobivia taratensis var. leucosiphus Cárdenas

Description: Echinopsis cinnabarinaSN|9451]]SN|9451]] much better known under its old name, Lobivia cinnabarinaSN|9455]]SN|9455]] is a small cactus with a much flattened usually solitary body (sometime forms small few branched clumps).
Stems: Glossy dark green, spherical broader than high, depressed and unarmed at apex, up to 15 cm in diameter.
Ribs: It has 20 ribs spirally arranged, irregular and oblique, with raised to acute tubercles between which the areoles appear.
Areoles: Rounded with short whitish felt.
Radial spines: 8-10, about 1-2 cm long, arranged like little spiders, more or less curved backward, acicular, slender, brownish, turn greyish eventually.
Central spines: None or 1 to 3 stouter, somewhat curved.
Flowers: About 4 to 8 cm broad, near the plant apex, rotate-campanulate, scarlet to deep red. Inner perianth segments broad, obtuse, the outer one greenish or whitish, stamen and stile much shorter than the perianth-segments. The flower's tube is covered by hairy lanceolate-acute scales with hairy axils.

Notes: This taxon has lots of synonyms (like most Lobivia) whit several controversial varieties and subspecies.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey “The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass” Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug./2011
2) David Hunt, Nigel Taylor “The New Cactus Lexicon” DH Books, 2006
3) Edward F. Anderson “The Cactus Family” Timber Press, 2001
4) Walter Rausch in: Kakteen And. Sukk. 28(4): 75. 1977
5) Walter Rausch "Lobivia 85." Rudolf Herzig Verlag, Wien. 1986.
6) Walter Rausch “Lobivia: The Day Flowering Echinopsidinae from a Geographical Distribution Point of View” Volumes 1-3 R. Herzig, 1975
7) Brian Lamb “Letts guide to cacti of the world” Letts, 17/ott/1991
8) Lowry, M. 2013. Echinopsis cinnabarina. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 January 2014.

Cultivation and Propagation: Echinopsis cinnabarinaSN|9451]]SN|9451]] is a summer grower species that offers no cultivation difficulties. Water regularly in summer (but do not overwater ) needs good drainage and very porous, keep rather dry in winter. Feed with a high potassium fertilizer in summer. It is quite frost resistant if kept dry (hardy to -12° C). Need a bright exposure, full sun or half shade in summer.
Propagation: Direct sow after last frost, offsets (if available).