Coryphantha ottonis

Coryphantha ottonis
	Coryphantha ottonis
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Coryphantha
Type :	Coryphantha ottonis
Scientific name
	Coryphantha ottonis
	( Whistle ) Lem.

Coryphantha ottonis is a species of plant in the genus Coryphantha from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet ottonis honors the German gardener and botanist Christoph Friedrich Otto .

description

Coryphantha ottonis grows individually with spherical, glossy dark green or gray-green shoots that reach heights of up to 12 centimeters with diameters of 4 to 7 centimeters. The soft, up to 15 millimeters long warts are conical in shape. The axillae are densely covered with wool and have nectar glands . The one to four gray, yellowish or reddish, stiff central spines are usually hooked in young plants and straight in older plants. They are 1.5 to 2 inches long. The eight to ten yellow to reddish radial spines have lengths of up to 1.2 centimeters.

The white, light yellow, rose or bright pink flowers are 3 to 6 inches long and reach 4 to 6.5 inches in diameter.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Coryphantha ottonis is widespread on pastureland in the Mexican states of Durango , Zacatecas , Guanajuato , Hidalgo , Jalisco , México , Puebla , Tlaxcala, and Querétaro .

The first description as Mammillaria ottonis by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer was published in 1838. Charles Lemaire placed the species in the genus Coryphantha in 1868 .

A nomenclature synonym is Cactus ottonis (Pfeiff.) Kuntze (1891, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1). Other synonyms are Mammillaria asterias Cels ex Salm-Dyck (1850), Coryphantha asterias (Cels ex Salm-Dyck) Boed. ex A. Berger (1929), Echinocactus ottonianus Poselg. (1853), Coryphantha ottonianus (Poselg.) Y.Itô (1981, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Mammillaria bussleri Mundt (1902), Coryphantha bussleri (Mundt) Scheinvar (1981) and Mammillaria golziana Haage (1909).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 155-156 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 177.
↑ Ludwig Pfeiffer: About some new cacti . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 6. Number 35, 1838, p. 274 ( online ).
↑ Charles Lemaire: Les Cactées Histoire, Patrie organ de vegetation Inflorescence Culture etc. Paris 1868, p 34th
^ Coryphantha ottonis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Sánchez, E. & Guadalupe Martínez, J., 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2013.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 177.

[2] Ludwig Pfeiffer: About some new cacti . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 6. Number 35, 1838, p. 274 ( online ).

[3] Charles Lemaire: Les Cactées Histoire, Patrie organ de vegetation Inflorescence Culture etc. Paris 1868, p 34th

[4] Coryphantha ottonis in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Sánchez, E. & Guadalupe Martínez, J., 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2013.