Parodia tilcarensis

Parodia tilcarensis
	Parodia tilcarensis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Notocacteae
Genre :	Parody
Type :	Parodia tilcarensis
Scientific name
	Parodia tilcarensis
	( Werderm. & Backeb. ) Backeb.

Parodia tilcarensis is a species of plant in the genus Parodia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet tilcarensis refers to the occurrence of the species near the Argentine city of Tilcara .

description

Parodia tilcarensis usually grows individually. The cloudy, leaf-green, spherical to cylindrical shoots reach heights of growth of up to 15 centimeters and the same diameter. The apex of the shoot is covered with thick white wool. The approximately 20 ribs are easily subdivided into cusps. The areoles on them are white. The four straight to slightly curved, brownish to dark brown central spines are thick at their base. They have lengths of up to 2.5 centimeters. The nine to 15 whitish radial spines have a darker base.

The bell-shaped to funnel-shaped, bronze-red to blood-red flowers reach lengths of up to 3 centimeters and the same diameter. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with white to pink wool. The scars are pale yellow. The greenish yellow spherical fruits are about 4 millimeters long. They contain hemispherical, black, somewhat glossy seeds about 0.7 millimeters in length that are humped.

Distribution and systematics

Parodia tilcarensis is widespread in the Argentine province of Jujuy in middle altitudes around 2400 meters.

The first description as Echinocactus stuemeri var. Tilcarensis by Erich Werdermann and Curt Backeberg was published in 1931. Curt Backeberg placed the species in the genus Parodia in 1936 . A nomenclature synonym is Bolivicactus tilcarensis (Werderm. & Backeb.) Doweld (2000).

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 516 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 240.
↑ New cacti. Hunts, species, culture . Trowitzsch & Sohn, Berlin 1931, pp. 59 and 89.
^ In: Curt Backeberg, Frederik Marcus Knuth: Kaktus-ABC . 1936, p. 268.

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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. 240.

[2] New cacti. Hunts, species, culture . Trowitzsch & Sohn, Berlin 1931, pp. 59 and 89.

[3] In: Curt Backeberg, Frederik Marcus Knuth: Kaktus-ABC . 1936, p. 268.