Parodia leninghausii
Parodia lenninghausii
Parodia lenninghausii is a flowering plant in the genus Parodia from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The epithet of the species honors Fred. Guillermo Lenninghaus, a cactus collector from Porto Alegre, who sent the first specimens of the species to the company cacti - Haage in Erfurt in 1894.
Description
Parodia lenninghausii usually grows in large groups with cylindrical green shoots, the plant height and 60 centimeters ( or higher) and reach a diameter between 7 to 10 centimeters. The crooked shoot tip is a little woolly. The approximately 30 to 35 straight, low, blunt ribs are covered with close-set areoles, from which pale to deep yellow to brown spines arise, which are very fine and straight to slightly curved. The 3-4 central spines are 2-5 inches long. The 15 to 20 ( or more) radial spines are 5-10 mm long.
The lemon-yellow flowers are 5-6 inches long and achieve just such diameter. Your Perikarpell and the corolla tube are occupied with dense brown wool and bristles. The scar is pale yellow. The spherical fruits are bell-shaped, brownish- red seeds.
Distribution and threat
Parodia lenninghausii is widespread in Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Sul on steep rock walls in humid gorges.
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is called " Endangered ( EN ) ', ie performed as endangered.
Botanical history
For the first time the way in 1895 was mentioned as Pilocereus leninghausii by Karl Moritz Schumann, who attributed the name of the species Friedrich Ferdinand Haage. Schumann took however, that the species of the genus Echinocactus was attributed and published the name Echinocactus leninghausii in the same year, but without providing a valid description. A year later appeared in a catalog of the company cacti - Haage under the name Pilocereus lenninghausii the first short description of the article, followed by various recombinations in other genres. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose they put 1922 in the genus Malacocarpus, Alwin Berger, 1929 in the Notocactus, Walter Heinrich in 1940 to the genus eriocephala and Fred H. Brandt In 1982, in the genus Parodia. With regard to the published in Haage catalog 1896 spelling " lenninghausii " corrected Urs Eggli and Andreas Hofacker in 2010 by a new combination of the misspelling of the amount attributable to Guillermo Lenninghaus Artepithetons.