Sulcorebutia vizcarrae var. Gemmae conicae perpurpureae squamulis viridescentibus instructae quae nudae videntur sed in quarum axillis pili nonnulli saetosi absconditi sunt. Holotypus depositus in Herbario Kewensis sub Nr.
Roots are are fibrous with two or more thickened roots.
The areole is found at the upper surface of the tubercle in a grove that is an extension of a fold between two higher protrusions. The plants were found by Alfred Lau on his second expedition to Bolivia in 1970 and given his field collection number L 324. This taxon belongs to a closely related group of plants found west of Aiquile between the Rio Mizque and the Rio Caine and westwards in the direction of Mizque and Arani and the Reika Pampa. The former is larger with a flattened body and thicker, more robust spines and a shorter flower tube, while the latter is much smaller with shorter, white or black coloured pectinate spines and flowers with light purple coloured stamen. The following table compaires the differences between S. vizcarrae var.