Xerophyte

Central Spines

4, short, hooked of which the upper three are honey-yellow with a reddish tip, while the lower one is more long and strong.

Seeds

Very small 0,4 mm long, brown smooth and shining.

Description

Parodia talaensisSN|5784]]SN|11787]] is one of the innumerable forms of the very variable Parodia microspermaSN|11718]]SN|11718]] with bright orange flowers. It is a compact small to medium-sized cactus densely covered in dense white and yellow spines. Usually solitary, but can forms small clusters.

Flowers

Bright orange, infundibuliform on the plant apex 2,5 mm long, 40 mm in diameter. External tepals spatulate or lanceolate, denticulate yellowish-orange. The filaments bear cream-yellowish anthers. Stile white-yellowish bearing a up to 12 lobed stigma.

Blooming Season

Produces several flowers simultaneously in early summer (while in Parodia maassiiSN|11787]]SN|5784]] the flowers usually appear one by one), the flowers remain open for about three days.

Ribs

13-21 spiraling with conical tubercles 4-5 mm in diameter 3 mm long.

Stem

Green globose or cylindrical 6-9 cm in diameter and up to10 cm tall.

Radial Spines

11-13 thin,bristly, white, up to 7 mm long.

Fruits

Ovoidal 6x5 mm, with basal dehiscence.

Areoles

1,5 mm in diameter with white-yellowish tomentum that fade away as they age.