and are often heavily woolly. The thorns are more or less bristle-like. The light to dark yellow flowers are broadly bell-shaped, styles and stigmas are the same color. The fruits have a hard pericarp and open at the base. Subgenus Brasilicactus: The shoots are flat spherical to rarely short columnar. The shoot apex is often crooked. The remarkably soft shoot tissue contains no mucus. The protuberances are separated from each other and arranged in oblique rows or fused into ridges. The round areoles are close together. Central spines are not formed or are occasionally hooked. There are numerous radial spines. They are narrow, funnel-shaped, styles and stigmas are colored the same. The fruits have a thin pericarp and open at their base. Species Species of the genus Parodia according to Plants of the World Online separated into sections according to Reto Nyffeler: Synonyms Note that the inclusion of Notocactus (the type genus of the tribe) into Parodia was a move of the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study at the end of the 1980s. This inclusion is still controversial today. References Biolib Universal biological indexer Bibliography Cactoideae genera Cacti of South America Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini