Parodia langsdorfii(Lehm.) D.R.Hunt

Cactus

WFO wfo-0001252386 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Parodia langsdorfii, photographed by Agustina Medina
fig. a Agustina Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-13 / obs. 179317803
Parodia langsdorfii, photographed by Agustina Medina
fig. b Agustina Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179317819
Parodia langsdorfii, photographed by Agustina Medina
fig. c Agustina Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179317836

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Parodia langsdorfii is native: Brazil South Brazil South
Native distribution of Parodia langsdorfii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil South BZS SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 31 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cactus langsdorfii Lehm.
  • Echinocactus langsdorfii (Lehm.) Link & Otto
  • Echinocactus polyacanthus Link & Otto
  • Malacocarpus langsdorfii (Lehm.) Britton & Rose
  • Malacocarpus polyacanthus (Link & Otto) Salm-Dyck
  • Melocactus langsdorfii (Lehm.) DC.
  • Notocactus langsdorfii (Lehm.) Krainz
  • Notocactus langsdorfii f. eddiewarasii N.Gerloff
  • Notocactus langsdorfii f. multiceps (Hofacker & K.Herm) Neduchal
  • Notocactus langsdorfii f. prestlei (N.Gerloff) N.Gerloff
  • Notocactus langsdorfii f. prolifer (F.Ritter) N.Gerloff
  • Notocactus langsdorfii var. leprosorum (F.Ritter) Hofacker
  • Notocactus langsdorfii var. longispinus (F.Ritter) N.Gerloff
  • Notocactus leprosorum (F.Ritter) S.Theun.
  • Notocactus leprosorum (F.Ritter) Havlíček
  • Notocactus longispinus (F.Ritter) S.Theun.
  • Notocactus longispinus (F.Ritter) Havlíček
  • Notocactus neohorstii var. prestlei N.Gerloff
  • Notocactus polyacanthus (Link & Otto) S.Theun.
  • Notocactus prolifer (F.Ritter) S.Theun.
  • Notocactus pulvinatus var. multiceps (Hofacker & K.Herm) Garabelli & Wolman
  • Parodia langsdorfii subsp. multiceps Hofacker & K.Herm
  • Ritterocactus langsdorfii (Lehm.) Doweld
  • Ritterocactus langsdorfii subsp. multiceps (Hofacker & K.Herm) Doweld

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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