Parodia

Accepted species 70 Documented here 8 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 70 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Parodia scopa (Spreng.) N.P.Taylor 36 documented
Parodia ottonis (Lehm.) N.P.Taylor 24 documented
Parodia mammulosa (Lem.) N.P.Taylor 23 documented
Parodia maassii (Heese) A.Berger 11 documented
Parodia linkii (Lehm.) R.Kiesling 6 documented
Parodia prestoensis F.H.Brandt 4 documented
Parodia langsdorfii (Lehm.) D.R.Hunt 3 documented
Parodia ocampoi Cárdenas 3 documented
Parodia haselbergii (F.Haage ex Rümpler) F.H.Brandt 2 below the evidence gate
Parodia microsperma (F.A.C.Weber) Speg. 2 below the evidence gate
Parodia ritteri Buining 2 below the evidence gate
Parodia concinna (Monv.) N.P.Taylor 1 below the evidence gate
Parodia maldonadensis (Herter) Hofacker 1 below the evidence gate
Parodia nivosa Backeb. 1 below the evidence gate
Parodia tenuicylindrica (F.Ritter) D.R.Hunt 1 below the evidence gate
Parodia alacriportana Backeb. & Voll 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia allosiphon (Marchesi) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia aureicentra Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia ayopayana Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia buiningii (Buxb.) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia calvescens (N.Gerloff & A.D.Nilson) Anceschi & Magli 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia carambeiensis (Buining & Brederoo) Hofacker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia chrysacanthion (K.Schum.) Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia claviceps (F.Ritter) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia columnaris Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia comarapana Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia commutans F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia crassigibba (F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia curvispina (F.Ritter) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia diersiana Jucker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia erinacea (Haw.) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia erubescens (Osten) D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia formosa F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia fusca (F.Ritter) Hofacker & P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia gaucha M.Machado & Larocca 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia gibbulosa F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia graessneri (K.Schum.) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia hausteiniana Rausch 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia hegeri Diers, Krahn & Beckert 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia herteri (Werderm.) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia hofackeriana A.S.Oliveira & R.Pontes 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia horrida F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia horstii (F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia ibicuiensis (Prestlé) Anceschi & Magli 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia larapuntensis Diers & Jucker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia lenninghausii (F.Haage) F.H.Brandt ex Eggli & Hofacker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia magnifica (F.Ritter) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia mairanana Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia mueller-melchersii (Frič ex Backeb.) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia muricata (Link & Otto ex Pfeiff.) Hofacker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia neobuenekeri (F.Ritter) Anceschi & Magli 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia neohorstii (S.Theun.) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia nigrispina (K.Schum.) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia nothorauschii D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia otaviana Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia oxycostata (Buining & Brederoo) Hofacker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia pontesiana Hofacker 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia procera F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia rechensis (Buining) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia rudibuenekeri (W.R.Abraham) Hofacker & P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia schumanniana (Nicolai) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia schwebsiana (Werderm.) Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia stockingeri (Prestlé) Hofacker & P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia stuemeri (Werderm.) Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia subterranea F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia taratensis Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia tuberculata Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia unguiculata Diers 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia warasii (F.Ritter) F.H.Brandt 0 below the evidence gate
Parodia werdermanniana (Herter) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.