Dyckia dawsonii
Dyckia dawsonii is a very controversial species native to Mato Grosso
but where in there nobody knows.
The indicated local in its original description shows absolutely no Dyckia.
People used to hide the true spot from fearing people would get together and remove everything as
the Europeans did here with our orchids and cacti and now the bromeliads...
Tons of Laelia purpurata would try to sail the Atlantic, mostly to rot or get salt bathed before getting into England or Germany. Those vandals are taken as heroes up today and backed by famous Botanic Gardens.
In Brazil this days we have no more than a dozen Dyckias aficionados, let aside in those times.
We may find a said to be living type form specimen of Dyckia dawsonii in Europe, a well too fancy one to be not suspected of fake or taken as a trap.
It would not be the very first in Botany and not the very first in Dyckias.
Dyckia platyphylla never existed but Dyckia Platyphylla with a capital letter, yes! The plant is a hybrid resulted from Dyckia marnier-lapostollei and Dyckia brevifolia intercourse. The spots of its origin indicated in its description are fake and changed as the time passed by from Bahia to Minas Gerais and from there to Rio Grande do Sul, thousands of kilometers apart from each other and while people do dot make their mind it is more than obvious platyphylla is a fake or better yet, a hybrid. 
..all in all it does seem we have another case just like Dyckia Platyphylla here.
..and by the way, this plants here shown all came from USA some years ago.
I think people imagined we were too weak minded to realize that was a trap or they didn´t count on WWW or they imagine us Brazilians as uncivilized indians that lived on a land of monkeys and macaws and had red feathers hanging down our ear lobes and a huge wooden disc inside our lower lips.
Well, pale face we can think! Me not so donkey bu-wanna-sahib.
...for as much as you might not believe we use to floss after man-eating...
Please Buwana, well done for me....
On 18 January 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 different uncontacted tribes in Brazil, up from 40 in 2005. With this addition Brazil has now overpassed New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted people.
Shows Xingu tribesmen traveling to protest
on a dam construction.
This is Brazil..the one I love best!
That is REAL talk. Tell more, I am listening....
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