In rare cases, short columnar specimens up to 40 centimeters high have been found.

[3] Uebelmannia gummifera is widespread in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the Serra de Ambrosia and grows on quartz grit.

The first description as Parodia gummifera was made in 1949 by Curt Backeberg and Otto Voll.

[4] The specific epithet gummifer is derived from the Latin words gumma for 'rubber' and -fer for '-bearing'.

Albert Frederik Hendrik Buining placed the species in the genus Uebelmannia in 1967