Parodia turecekiana
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Parodia turecekiana is a species of plant in the genus Parodia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet turecekiana honors the American cactus collector Victor Turecek.
description
Parodia turecekiana grows individually. The dark purple-green, spherical or often depressed spherical shoots reach heights of growth of 3 to 5 centimeters and diameters of 5 to 15 centimeters. The twelve to 13 ribs are strongly tubercular and only have a few areoles 1 to 1.3 centimeters apart in the notches per rib . The whitish or yellowish thorns have a reddish base. The one or two unequal, flattened and often twisted central spines are often missing in young plants. The upper central spine is directed upwards, the other downwards. They have lengths of 1 to 4 centimeters. The six to nine unequal radial spines lie on the shoot surface and are 1 to 3 centimeters long.
The yellow flowers reach lengths of 3 to 4 centimeters and diameters of up to 4.5 centimeters. The scars are yellow. The dry, spherical fruits are covered with white wool and are 1.4 to 1.6 inches long. They contain bell-shaped, cloudy dark brown seeds 1.2 millimeters long and 1.5 millimeters wide that are tuberous.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Parodia turecekiana is common in Uruguay in the Río Negro department and in the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Entre Ríos on the clay soils of the flood plains .
The first description by Roberto Kiesling was published in 1995. Nomenclatory synonyms are Notocactus turecekianus (R. Kiesling) WRAbraham (1995), Notocactus mammulosus subsp. turecekianus (R.Kiesling) Prestlé (1997, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 33.3) and Notocactus submammulosus var. turecekianus (R.Kiesling) Lodé (1999, nom. invalid. ICBN -Article 33.3).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. listed as endangered.
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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. 246.
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 67, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1995, pp. 15-19.
- ↑ Parodia turecekiana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Duarte, W. & Kiesling, R., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
