Parodia tuberculata
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Parodia tuberculata is a species of plant in the genus Parodia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet tuberculatus comes from Latin , means 'humped' and refers to the humped ribs of the shoots.
description
Parodia tuberculata grows individually. The gray-green, spherical shoots reach heights of growth of up to 10 centimeters and a diameter of 14 centimeters. The depressed top of the shoot is woolen in white. The roughly 13 to 20 spirally arranged ribs are divided into large, round cusps. The four gray central spines have lengths of 1.3 to 1.8 centimeters. One of them is pointing downwards and is slightly hooked. The ten to eleven radial spines, also gray, are needle-like and spread out. They lie on the shoot surface and are 0.7 to 1 centimeter long.
The short, bell-shaped, red-orange to blood-red flowers reach lengths of 1.8 to 2.5 centimeters. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with thick white hair and scales. The top scales have short bristles. The scars are yellowish. The purple-colored, spherical fruits are bare and up to 6 millimeters long. They contain cloudy black seeds 0.8 millimeters in diameter, which are finely tuberous.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Parodia tuberculata is common in the Bolivian departments of Chuquisaca and Potosí at altitudes of 2200 to 2700 meters.
The first description by Martín Cárdenas was published in 1951. A nomenclatory synonym is Bolivicactus tuberculatus (Cárdenas) Doweld (2000).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
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. 244.
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 23, Number 3, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1951, pp. 97-98.
- ↑ Parodia tuberculata in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Lowry, M., 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
