Parodia

Parodia
Parodia magnifica, Huntington Desert Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Subfamily:	Cactoideae
Tribe:	Notocacteae
Genus:	Parodia Speg.
Species
Parodia alacriportana Parodia arnostiana Parodia buiningii Parodia concinna Parodia erinacea Parodia fusca Parodia graessneri Parodia herteri Parodia leninghausii Parodia linkii Parodia magnifica Parodia meonacantha Parodia microsperma Parodia nigrispina Parodia oxycostata Parodia procera Parodia saint-pieana Parodia sellowii Parodia tenuicylindrica Parodia turecekiana Parodia warasii Parodia werneri etc.

Parodia is a genus of cacti. This genus has about 50 species, ranging from small globose plants to 1-m tall columnar cacti.

It is named after the Argentine botanist Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895-1966).

Parodia herteri

Parodia warasii

Several plants of genus Parodia in Botanical garden Liberec

Synonymy

The following genera have been brought into synonymy with Parodia:

• Acanthocephala Backeb.
• Brasilicactus Backeb.
• Brasiliparodia F.Ritter
• Brasilocactus Fric (nom. inval.)
• Chrysocactus Y.Itô (nom. inval.)
• Dactylanthocactus Y.Itô
• Eriocactus Backeb.
• Eriocephala Backeb.
• Friesia Fric (nom. inval.)
• Hickenia Britton & Rose
• Jauhisoparodia Gabriel Blackhat
• Malacocarpus Salm-Dyck
• Microspermia Fric
• Neohickenia Fric
• Notocactus (K.Schum.) Fric
• Sericocactus Y.Itô
• Wigginsia D.M.Porter

Note that the inclusion of Notocactus (the type genus of the tribe) into Parodia was a move of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Studies at the end of the 80's. This inclusion is still controversial today.