GUARITAS - MINAS DO CAMAQUÃ, CAÇAPAVA DO SUL/SANTANA DA BOA VISTA, RS, BRAZIL

Guaritas, Caçapava do Sul

Sandstone rock formations

A small house lost in the Minas do Camaquã region

Landscape of Minas do Camaquã region

Sandstone conglomerate

Pedra Grande, Santana da Boa Vista

Pedra Grande, Santana da Boa Vista

Fog in the valley of Pedra Grande

Pedra do Lagarto, Santana da Boa Vista

Pedra do Lagarto

Dawn in the Serra das Encantadas

Tillandsia lorentziana Griseb. and Parodia scopa (Spreng.) N.P.Taylor on rock wall

Parodia neohorstii (S. Theun.) N.P. Taylor (Cactaceae), an endemic globular cactus of the Minas do Camaquã region
Category of threat: Critically Endangered (CR)

Parodia scopa subsp. neobuenekeri (F.Ritter) Hofacker & P.J.Braun (Cactaceae), an endemic cactus of the Minas do Camaquã region

Category of threat: Critically Endangered (CR)

Parodia crassigibba (Ritter) N. P. Taylor (Cactaceae), an endemic cactus of Serra do Sudeste that occurs mainly in the Guaritas - Minas do Camaquã
Category of threat: Critically Endangered (CR)

Gymnocalycium horstii Buining (Cactaceae), endemic cactus of the Guaritas - Minas do Camaquã
Category of threat: Critically Endangered (CR)

Dyckia choristaminea Mez (Bromeliaceae), rupicolous bromeliad that occurs exclusively in Serra do Sudeste
Category of threat: Endangered (EN)

Portulaca papulifera D. Legrand (Portulacaceae)
Category of threat: Endangered (EN)

Portulaca cryptopetala Spegazzini (Portulacaceae)

Petunia exserta J.R.Stehm (Solanaceae)., endemic species of the sandstone conglomerates in Serra do Sudeste region
Category of threat: Endangered (EN)

    Photographer Eduardo Giehl, Flora Digital do RS