More than a new finding a bombshell .......

 

Dyckia delicata?

Hummm, maybe yes and maybe no.
It is a brand new finding some 300km southwest Dyckia delicata lives in nature.
Thank to a Internet video made by trillers some Botanists saw something special and  took the time to search for it. The land lord gave them permission to see the surroundings and several other species were there ans what a surprise a looking like delicata was there too and many many of them.

How this plant reached there?

Maybe delicata was never there ans chances are this plant is a natural hybrid. Flowers were never seen. This explains more than we see and know about Dyckias. How species differentiate themselves from each other? The southernmost Brazilian Dyckias are the most extensively studied ones.
Maybe long ago and far away in time we had just one single species and all we see today comes and derives from it. This primeval one Dyckia may be one Dyckia tuberosa. So all the modern species  come from tuberosa and the mixes occurred in nature.

Rio Grand do Sul has many many natural Dyckia hybrids, many taken as species for they eluded scientists. Things are getting cleared thank to this South botanists group in Santa Maria Federal University, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

Here I hold the new brand new found one close to a typical true Dyckia delicta

We are anxious for its flowers, will they be yellow?
Seeds will be  bigger? Racemous stalk or one unbranched one?