Parodia crassigibba

Parodia crassigibba
	Parodia crassigibba
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Parody
Type :	Parodia crassigibba
Scientific name
	Parodia crassigibba
	( F.Ritter ) NPTaylor

Flowers of Parodia crassigibba

Parodia crassigibba is a species of plant in the genus Parodia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet crassigibba is derived from the Latin words crassus for 'thick' and gibba for 'bulge' and refers to the bulging humps of the species.

description

Parodia crassigibba grows individually. The glossy dark green, depressed spherical shoots reach a diameter of 4 to 17 centimeters. They have a thornless shoot apex. The ten to 15 low and rounded ribs are covered with broad, chin-like humps. The areoles located between the cusps are white. The slightly curved spines are mostly on the surface of the shoot. They are colored white to gray or light brown. The thorns are 0.5 to 3 centimeters long. The thorns are divided into up to a central spine and six to 14 radial spines.

The flowers reach lengths of 4.5 to 6 centimeters and the same diameter. The flower color is very different. It is white to yellow or reddish purple in color. Your pericarpel is thickly woolly and covered with only a few bristles. The scar is dark purple in color. The green, barrel-shaped fruits are swollen and covered with white wool and yellow bristles. They are up to 1.5 inches long. The fruits contain hemispherical, cloudy black seeds , the protruding hilum of which is corky.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Parodia crassigibba is common in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul .

The first description as Notocactus crassigibbus by Friedrich Ritter was published in 1970. Nigel Paul Taylor placed the species in 1987 in the genus Parodia . A nomenclature synonym is Ritterocactus crassigibbus (F.Ritter) Doweld (1999).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. listed as critically endangered.

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literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 498-499 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 55.
^ Succulenta . Volume 49, Number 7, 1970, pp. 108-109.
↑ David Hunt, Nigel Taylor: New and unfamiliar names of Cactaceae to be used in the European Garden Flora . In: Bradleya . Volume 5, 1987, p. 93.
↑ Parodia crassigibba in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Larocca, J. & Machado, M., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 55.

[2] Succulenta . Volume 49, Number 7, 1970, pp. 108-109.

[3] David Hunt, Nigel Taylor: New and unfamiliar names of Cactaceae to be used in the European Garden Flora . In: Bradleya . Volume 5, 1987, p. 93.

[4] Parodia crassigibba in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Larocca, J. & Machado, M., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.