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Notocactus langsdorfii
This plant is recognizable for
numerous spines and the small-sized pale yellow flowers.
The
flowers are lemon yellow with shining glossy petals,
and are very showy.
The red purple stigma emphasize the yellow of the petals.
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Description: Usually solitary (in the standard
form), or branching.
NOTE:
Notocactus langsdorfii,
together with the subordinated
taxa ('leprosorum', 'longispinum',
'pulvinatus', ediewarasii', 'multiceps' and
'prolifer'), form a group of
very similar and controversial southern Brasilian plants bearing small
flowers and strong spination.
Stem: Bright or dark green, globose to short cylindrical. The
apex is depressed and filled with whitish-grey wool.
Ribs: Well marked and sharp, with scarcely prominent chinned
tubercles. The crest of the ribs typically take on a purple red hue in
full sun.
Areoles: Well spaced, woolly, recessed .
Spines: Several, yellowish, strong, about 20-25 mm long, spreading
or curved down and backward.
Flowers: Small, lemon yellow with glossy shining petals, up to about
2-3 cm in diameter, standing near the top,
and decorated with a red pistil which emphasizes the yellow of the petals.
The buds are tomentose.
Blooming season: They bloom annually around June-July.
NOTE: All species of genera
Notocactus, Wigginsia and Malacocarpus
have recently been transferred to genus Parodia, so the
names of several plants previously accepted are now all synonyms of
Parodia langsdorfii.
(see list of synonyms on
the page bottom)
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Cultivation:
It is easy to grow. The plants like a warm bright location, and do great in
partial shade. Avoid full sun. They need good drainage and prefer a
neutral to slightly acidic compost, with plenty of extra grit. Water and
feed during the summer. Best if watered with rain water. Keep above 0°C
and rather dry in winter; they rot easily if the substrate is wet and cold,
and tend to lose their roots in winter.
Propagation: Seeds
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family)
Conservation status:
Listed
in
CITES Appendix II
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Accepted
Scientific name:
Notocactus
langsdorfii
(Lehmann) Krainz
In: Kakt. und
and. Sukk., 17: 195, 1966
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Origin: Southern Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Habitat:
This species
usually grows between rocks.
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
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SUBORDINATES
TAXA:
Notocactus
langsdorfii
var. langsdorfii
Synonyms:
-
(Basionim)
Cactus (Melocactus) langsdorfii
Lehmann 1826
In: Semina in
Hort. bot. Hamburg. coll.: 17
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Echinocactus
langsdorfii
(Lehmann) Link &
Otto
In: Icon. Pl.
Rar., p. 79, 1830
a
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Echinocactus poliacanthus
Link
& Otto
In: Verh. Verh. Beförd. Gartenb., 3: 422, 1827
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Cactus Langsdorfii
Lehmann 1828
in: Ind. Sem.
Hamburg., p. 17, 1826
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Melocactus
langsdorfii
P. de Candolle
1828
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Cactus poliacanthus
Link & Otto
1827
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Malacocarpus polyacanthus
(Lk. et O.) Salm-Dyck
In: Cact. Hort.
Dyck., p. 25, 1841850
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Malacocarpus langsdorfii
(Lehmann)
Britton & Rose
In: Cactaceae,
3: 1623, 1922
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Notocactus
polyacanthus
(Link & Otto)
S.Theunissen
In: Succulenta,
60: 12, 1981
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Melocactus polyacanthus
Lk. et O.
In: Verh. Verh. Beförd. Gartenb., tab. 16, 1827
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Wigginsia langsdorfii
(Lehmann)
D.M.Porter
In: Taxon, 13:
210, 1964
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Wigginsia polyacantha
(Link
& Otto) F.Ritter
In: Kakteen in
Südamerika, 1: 193, 1979
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Parodia langsdorfii
D.R.Hunt 1997
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Ritterocactus
langsdorfii
(Lehmann) Doweld
2000
Notocactus
langsdorfii var. leprosorum
(Ritter) Hofacker, 1994
Synonyms:
-
Wigginsia leprosorum
F.Ritter
1979
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Notocactus leprosorum
(F.Ritter)
Havlicek 1981
-
Notocactus leprosorum
(F.Ritter)
S.Theunissen 1981
Notocactus langsdorfii
var.
longispinus
(F.Ritter )
N.Gerloff
In::
Internoto 14 (2): 78-79 1993
Synonyms:
-
(Basionym)
Wigginsia longispina
F.Ritter 1979
In: :
Kakteen in Suedamerika, Bd.1: 198-199 1979
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Notocactus longispinus
(F.Ritter)
S.Theunisssen 1981
-
Notocactus
longispinus
(F.Ritter)
Havlicek 1981
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Notocactus langsdorfii
var.
longispinus
f.
infernensis
n.n.
Notocactus langsdorfii var. pulvinatus
(van Vliet)
Neduchal, 1999
Notocactus langsdorfii
f. ediewarasii
N.Gerloff 1994
in: : Minimus 25
(2): 5-12 - 1994
Synonyms:
Notocactus
langsdorfii f. multiceps
(Hofacker et Herm) Neduchal, 1999
Notocactus langsdorfii
f.
prolifer
(F.Ritter )
N.Gerloff
In:
Internoto 14 (2): 76-77N.Gerloff 1993
Synonyms:
-
(Basionym)
Wigginsia prolifera
F.Ritter
In: Kakteen in
Suedamerika, Bd. 1: 199 1979
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Notocactus prolifer
(F.Ritter)
S.Theunissen 1981
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Notocactus prolifer
(F.Ritter)
Havlicek 1981
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