Parodia sellowii

Parodia sellowii
	Parodia sellowii
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Parody
Type :	Parodia sellowii
Scientific name
	Parodia sellowii
	( Link & Otto ) DRHunt

Parodia sellowii is a species of plant in the genus Parodia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet sellowii honors the German gardener and naturalist Friedrich Sellow .

description

Parodia sellowii usually grows individually. The light to dark green, depressed spherical or spherical to short cylindrical, sometimes disc-shaped shoots reach heights of growth of up to 20 centimeters and diameters of 15 centimeters (rarely up to 33 centimeters). The apex of the shoot is covered with wool and occasionally depressed. The 17 to 22 (rarely up to 25) high ribs are sharp-edged. The areoles on them are 1.5 to 2 centimeters apart. The mostly single protruding central spine , which can also be missing, is somewhat stronger than the radial spines and has lengths of up to 2 centimeters. The four to twelve awl yellowish radial spines are straight or curved back and also up to 2 centimeters long.

The lemon-yellow to golden-yellow flowers reach lengths of 4 to 5 centimeters and the same diameter. The base of their throat is reddish to red. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with white wool and some bristles. The scars are dark red. The club-shaped elongated fleshy fruits are reddish to purple in color and only rarely white. They have lengths of up to 1 centimeter. The fruits contain helmet-shaped black seeds up to 1 millimeter in length that are tuberous.

Distribution and systematics

Parodia sellowii is widespread in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul , in Uruguay , in the Argentinian provinces of Entre Ríos , Córdoba , Buenos Aires , La Pampa and Río Negro, and in central Colombia .

The first description as Echinocactus sellowii by Heinrich Friedrich Link and Christoph Friedrich Otto was published in 1827. David Richard Hunt placed the species in the genus Parodia in 1997 . Further nomenclature synonyms are Malacocarpus sellowii (Link & Otto) K.Schum. (1890, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.4), Echinocactus acuatus var. Sellowii (Link & Otto) Speg. 1905, Wigginsia sellowii (Link & Otto) F.Ritter (1979) and Notocactus sellowii (Link & Otto) S.Theun. (1981). Numerous other synonyms are known.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 513-514 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 218.
^ Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States . Volume 3, 1827, p. 425 (online) .
↑ Cactaceae Consensus Initiatives . Number 4, 1997, p. 6.

Web links

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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. 218.

[2] Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States . Volume 3, 1827, p. 425 (online) .

[3] Cactaceae Consensus Initiatives . Number 4, 1997, p. 6.