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Parodia subterranea

(Parodia subterranea)

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Description

Parodia subterranea is a species of plant in the genus Parodia in the cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet subterranea comes from the Latin, means 'underground' and refers to the shoots of the species that grow almost entirely underground. Parodia subterranea almost exclusively grows singly. The dark green to olive green, flattened spherical shoots reach a diameter of up to 6 centimeters. The apex of the shoot is woolly white. A short thick root turnip is formed. The eleven to 13 ribs are divided into distinct conical humps. The initially white woolly areoles later become bald. The single strong central spine, rarely up to four, more or less protruding, hooked and black to yellow-brown in colour. It has lengths of 0.7 to 1.4 centimeters (rarely up to 2 centimeters). The about 10 radiating radial spines lie on the surface of the shoot. Mostly they are whitish or yellowish, but sometimes some are blackish. The radial spines are 0.5 to 0.8 centimeters long. The purple flowers reach lengths of up to 3 centimeters. Your pericarpel and the flower tube are covered with white to brown hairs and black bristles towards the top. The scars are pale yellow. The more or less spherical fruits are red at the base and turn green towards the top. They have lengths of about 0.6 centimeters and are covered with white hair. The fruits contain pouch-shaped, black seeds of 1.2 millimeters long and 0.5 millimeters wide, which are tubercles. Parodia subterranea is distributed in the Bolivian departments of Chuquisaca and Tarija in the puna vegetation at altitudes of 2500 to 3000 meters. The first description by Friedrich Ritter was published in 1964. Nomenclatural synonyms are Parodia maassii var. subterranea (F.Ritter) Krainz (1967) and Bolivicactus subterraneus (F.Ritter) Doweld (2000). In the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the species is listed as "Least Concern (LC)". H. listed as not endangered. Parodia is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to the uplands of Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay. This genus has about 50 species, many of which have been transferred from Eriocactus, Notocactus and Wigginsia. They range from small globose plants to 1 m (3 ft) tall columnar cacti. All are deeply ribbed and spiny, with single flowers at or near the crown. Some species produce offsets at the base. They are popular in cultivation, but must be grown indoors where temperatures fall below 10 °C (50 °F).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Cactaceae
Genus:Parodia
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