Parodia werdermanniana

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

Parodia werdermanniana is a species of the genus Parodia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet werdermanniana honors the German botanist and cactus specialist Erich Werdermann .

description

Parodia werdermanniana usually grows individually. The yellow-green, club-shaped shoots reach heights of up to 13 centimeters (rarely up to 30 centimeters) and a diameter of 10 centimeters. The apex of the shoot is slightly sunken. The 28 to 40 straight and low ribs are studded with numerous, rather large, chin-like protrusions. The four crisscrossed blunt needle-like, outwardly directed central spines are yellowish. They have lengths of up to 1.5 centimeters. The approximately 16 yellowish white, slightly laterally spreading radial spines are up to 5 millimeters long.

The sulfur-yellow flowers reach lengths of up to 6 centimeters and diameters of 7 centimeters. Your flower tube is covered with light wool. The scars are light yellow. The dark green, egg-shaped fruits are covered with dark brown felt and hair. They contain cap-shaped, black seeds that are finely humped.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Parodia werdermanniana is common in Uruguay in the Tacuarembó department .

The first description as Notocactus werdermannianus by Wilhelm Herter was published in 1942. Nigel Paul Taylor placed the species in 1987 in the genus Parodia . Further nomenclature synonyms are Peronocactus werdermannianus (Herter) Doweld (1999, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.4) and Wigginsia werdermanniana (Herter) Doweld (2000).

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

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 517 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 256.
^ Revista Sudamericana de botánica . Volume 7, 1942, p. 75.
↑ 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 werdermanniana in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Duarte, W., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.

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. 256.

[2] Revista Sudamericana de botánica . Volume 7, 1942, p. 75.

[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 werdermanniana in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Duarte, W., 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2014.